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SAVANNAH, GA. 



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CENTRAL R. R OF GA. SYSTEM. 

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It is a conceded fact that to-day the South is recognized 
as the richest and most favored portion of America. 

This not only applies to the productivity of its soil, its 
diversified crops, its vast mineral and timber resources, but 
to its delightful and healthful climate, the absence of ice 
and snow and droughts as compared with the North, East 
and West. 

The Central Railroad of Georgia, through this jiamphlet 
desires to make known to home seekers, capitalists, investors 
and to Northern and Western farmers the advantages and 
opportunities for successful life and successful investment 
in farm lands and other properties located along the 1,424 
miles of its system in the States of Alabama and Georgia. 

This great system, with its many feeders and connections, 
permeates all the most productive parts of the State of 
Georgia and reaches many important points in Alabama. 

It is the principal highway of travel between the many 
prosperous towns in Georgia and Alabama, extending from 
ISirmingham, Montgomery and Atlanta through Columbus, 
Macon, Eufaula Albany, Americus and Augusta to Savan- 
nah, the great Seaport of the Southern States, from which 
is exported annually about one million bales of cotton alone, 
and which is the largest naval stores market in the world. 

Freight rates being determined by a commission in 
Georgia, and under legal regulations in Alabama, are low. 
The markets of the North, East and West are easily reached 
by thoroughly equipped fast freight lines. The most 
prompt and satisfactory line between the East and 
South is by way of vSavannah and the several ocean 
steamship lines plying from that port, there being frequent 
sailings of first-class passenger and freight steamers direct 
between Savannah and Boston, New York, Philadelphia and 
Baltimore. The steamer lines between Savannah and New 
York, Philadelphia and Boston are controlled by the Central 
Eailroad of Georgia. 

The eyes of home seekers have gradually been turning 
from the vast expanses of prairie and table lands of the 
Noithwest, toward the fertile fields and the wealth- 
abounding mountain districts of the Sunny South. 

They have been opened to the great opportunities which 
this section presents. In order that they may view the 
■'•'Promised Land," low excursion rates have been granted 
by the several railroad lines into this section. Land seekers 



cannot fail to see the advantage in moving to a partly devel- 
oped country rather than to a territory separated by great 
distances from the commercial centers, away from railroads 
and devoid of the comforts and conveniences of civilized 
communities. 

The great resources of the South, in agriculture, mining 
and for manufacturing purposes are limitless. 

TJie late Wendall Phillips, in an address before the Boston 
Mechanics Society, several years ago, said: "The handwrit- 
ing is so plain on the wall that none but a fool need mistake 
it, New England is doomed just as sure as natural laws 
will produce fixed results. New England has no soil worth 
mentioning, and her wealth has all been derived from her 
manufactures. These are gradually leaving her, and even- 
tually they will all go; some to the West, but most to the 
South, where the advantages for profitable manufacturing 
are all located. The coal and iron in the South are easilv 
gotten at, and inexhaustible in amount, and the iron mills, 
foundries and machine shops can go to them better than 
they can be carried to the shops. Then the cotton and 
woolen mills must go there, for the raw materials are, and 
are to be produced there, most cheaply, uniformly and better. 
Then look at the advantage of the extra hours of daylight in 
a year's run. This, of itself, is no small matter. As the 
South grows stronger, the wealth, culture and power of 
the country will be centered there, until she will become, 
not alone the mistress of America, but the central empire 
of the world." 

We wish to direct, especially, the attention of all parties 
contemplating locating in the South, or seeking investments 
in profitable enterprises, toward the great States of the 
South — Georgia and Alabama. 

These States are unsurpassed for agricultural pursuits, 
whose soil yields abundant crops of cereals, cotton, tobacco, 
fruit, and all the varied products peculiar to latitudes both 
North and South, and whose mineral deposits are richer 
in formation and more varied in character than can be found 
in any other State in the Union. 

Among the many products of the soil, we would mention 
cotton, oats, corn, wheat, hay, rice, sugar cane, peaches, 
grapes, melons, potatoes, figs, and vegetables. 

Minerals of economic importance and value are found in 
almost all parts of these States, Gold, in greater or less 
quantiiy, has been found, in paying quantities, principally 
in five belts crossing the States from the Northea.st to the 
Southwest. 

Silver, lead, copper and pyrites are found either within 
the gold belts or parallelling them in close proximity. 

But by far the most extensive and valuable of her minerals 
are her vast deposits of iron ore. The red ore beds, at their 
outcropping extend in an unbroken line for 129 miles, under- 
lying an extensive area. East of this, the brown ores are 



found in vast quantities, and of tlie richest quality. 

Lumber, turpentine and fertilizers are other important 
industriesr 

Bituminous coal, both for domestic and steam purposes, 
is found in inexhaustible quantities, both in North Georgia 
and the mountains of Alabama. 

The Fruit Paradise of the world is along the lines of the 
Central Railroad of Georgia, running through sections of 
Georgia which claim the unique distinction of having the 
largest peach, pear and plum orchards in the entire world. 

The rare sight of one and a quarter million of peach trees, 
thirty thousand pear trees, and plums and grape vines till 
the eye is tired counting, in one orchard, gives but a faint 
idea of the possibilities of the future of this great industry. 

The climate of Georgia and Alabama is equable, land is 
cheap, education of all classes liberally provided, churches 
are plentiful and taxes are light. 

All towns of any size are well supplied with banking facili- 
ties, and, while during the last year or so, business has been 
rather dull, yet there have been but few failures, and in 
comparison with the North and West, the business depres- 
sion has been felt lightly in the South, and all signs indi- 
cate a decided improvement and renewed activity and pros- 
perity. 

The South is now ripe for development, and with the addi- 
tion of further immigration from the North and West, and 
the skillful labor, energy and enterprise attributed to these 
yjeople, accompanied by a more liberal investment of capital, 
for which there is promise of abundant returns, the contin- 
ued progress and increasing prosperity of the States of 
Georgia and Alabama is assured. 

Come South, and you will find in these States the garden 
spot of America. 

Ex-Gov. W. J. Northen has done much in the past two 
years towards the advancement of Southern immigration. 
He has organized the Georgia Immigration and In- 
vestment Bureau, at Atlanta, Ga., of which he is Manager, 
and by extensive advertising, has secured several large colo- 
nies of Northern farmers, locating them in different i^arts 
of The South. To him we are indebted for certain matter 
contained herein. 

A partial list of properties located along the lines of the 
Central Railroad of Georgia system which are offered for 
sale has been obtained and will be found in the following 
pages. 

Attention is called to the fact that while in many cases 
prices are given for each piece of property, such prices are 
options which run for different lengths of time and cannot 
be guaranteed. In many cases possibly the property can be 
bought for a less amount than quoted. The owner's name or 
person controlling such property is given in order that par- 
ties interested can enter into correspondence direct before 
coming to see the property. 



TIMBER INTERESTS. 

The standing timbei- of Georgia is far more valuable than 
all the other property of the State, including real and per- 
sonal property, manufactures, mines, quarries, and railroads. 
The lauds in Southern Georgia upon which stand the pine 
forests sell for three or four dollars, perhaps less, an acre; 
while it has been estimated that the timber alone is worth 
fo7 an acre, and that there is a profit of |12 in putting it 
upon the market. The value of the yellow pine timber in 
the Southern part of the State runs up to the biilion mark. 
This timber now feeds several of the largest industries of 
Georgia, and furnishes the bulk of freight carried by a num- 
ber of railways. It has proved so profitable a field for in- 
vestment, that fears are entertained that these magnificent 
forests will be sacrificed to a too eager desire for gain. But 
the forests can readily be preserved by proper care and leg- 
islation, and the State would then have a perp(VLual source 
of revenue for herself and her people. 

In addition to the vast supply of valuable lumber cut 
yearly from the pine forests, the other products of the pine, 
such as spirits of turpentine and rosin, form the basis of the 
most considerable traffic of the State, that in naval stores. 

The value of yellow pine in Georgia and Alabama, 
although famous the world over, is not yet fully appreciated. 
It is one of the mos.t durable and ornamental of woods. It 
is easily worked, and is abundant enough to be practically 
eivhaustless. It is fast supplanting other woods for use in 
the building of railway cars and in furnishings for offices 
and residences. 

The value of the other timbers of these two States is also 
becoming better known every year and more used in the 
manufacturing industries. There is an abundance of white 
oak, together with other varieties of oak; chestnut and 
hickory and other hard woods. 



THE COST OF LANDS AND HOMES. 

Land can be bought almost anywhere in the States of 
Georgia and Alabama at almost any price. Timber lands 
are on the market at $1.50 an acre. Good farm lands can be 
had on easy terms, and in almost any county of these States 
at prices ranging from $1.00 to |15.00 an acre, according to 
the state of improvement, accessibility to railroads, etc. 
Desirable farm lands, readily accessible to railroads, produc- 
tive and capable of a high state of cultivation, can be bought 
for from |4 an acre up to $50. 

Taking $7 as a fair average price for good and accessible 
fai-m land, and supposing that thirty acres is sufficient for 
a, small farm, whether it is to be planted in grass, staples, 
or fruit, or whether it is to be used for dairying purposes, 
or stock-raising, a comfortable home for a small family can 
be secured in our farming sections for $1,000. This includes 
the land and houses. Smaller places, with less pretentious, 



yet comfortable homes, can be secured for very much less. 
For the small and "intensive" farm, for the truck farmer 
and gardener, for the cultivation of grapes, strawberries, 
and other fruit, ten acres is said to be enough. This small 
holding would cost merely a pittance. 

A farm of fifty acres, with houses, should not cost more 
than |1,500 to $2,000. It can be bought for less, and may 
cost more, according to condition, improvement, accessibility 
to railroads, etc. 

A farm of one hundred acres, with dwelling and out- 
houses, can be bought for |2,000 to |3,000. Usually the 
dwelling houses and out-houses are thrown in. The land 
sells for a certain sum, and the houses are not estimated at 
all in the general price. This is not the case, of course, of 
very small places. Larger bodies of land sell at proportion- 
ately lower rates. Easy terms, in yearly payments, may be 
arranged in nearly all purchases. 



SMALL FARMS AS INVESTMENTS. 

It is needless to say that the low price of lands is due to 
the fact that the farm lands have not been properly culti- 
vated and improved. Their value has not been understood 
or appreciated. Many planters are "land poor." They are 
poor largely because they have so much land it is a burden 
and an incumbrance. They imperish themselves in trying 
to maintain extensive plantations, when they could make 
better livings and become independent and comfortable upon 
(Binaller holdings. When they exhaust the natural fertility 
of one field, they clear up another, and so on, until an enor- 
mous plantation, containing enough land to support a 
county, is barren waste. 

A "small farmer" from the North or West, or from Central 
Europe, with his long-practiced economic methods, and his 
custom of making his land produce its utmost every year, 
and each harvest better than the former, will soon add 
several hundred per cent, to the productiveness of the soil, 
and increase porportionately the value of the land. 

In one instance in Southern Georgia, land was bought for 
?12 an acre. It was planted in peaches. The trees cost |10 
an acre; the planting |2; the fertilization |2; and the cultiva- 
tion for four years amounted to |10 ; making a total expendi- 
ture in four years including cost of land, |36 an acre. The 
]>eaches brought in a net revenue in the fifth year of |191. 
The land was sold the same year for |70 an acre. If w^e de- 
duct the total expenses for the five years, |30, we have left 
the sum of |22.5 clear off of every acre in five years. The 
peach trees were then just in their prime, and were good for 
at ienst six more years. 

Lands that were bought a few years ago for five and ten 
dollars an acre, are now yielding a yearly profit in peaches 
and grapes of $100 an acre. 



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Truck farming or gardening pays equally as well. The 

«arly control of the Northern and Western markets gives the 

Boutbern farmer or gardener a sure profit in his crops every 

year. 

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GRASS OR STOCK- RAISING. 

Major W. H. Warren, of Augusta, Richmond county, 
Georgia, has demonstrated that there is great profit to be 
made from the raising of grass. From 92 acres he has cut 
400 tons of hay, weighed after cured. The price obtained 
ranged from |20 to |25 per ton, realizing $8,000. The ex- 
pense of attention, cutting, bailing, etc., was |2,500; leaving 
a profit of |5,500, or |60 clear profit to the acre. For the 
present year he has raised 800 tons of hay on 227 acres. 
On 48 acres, this year, he raised, also, 2,435 bushels of oats; 
and, after harvesting the oats, cut two crops of grass from 
the same land. 

Mr. E. A. Copeland, of Greenesboro, in the Bermuda grass 
section, realized |153 clear profit from one acre of Burmuda. 

The following is the record of one acre of land, cultivated 
by lion. Felix Corput, in Polk county. The land was sown in 
Johnson grass and clover: 

First cutting, 4^ tons clover hay $56 25 

Second cutting, 1^ tons Johnson grass 24 00 

Third cutting, 1^ tons mixed hay 18 75 

Income $99 00 

Interest on land I 4 50 

Stable manure 10 00 

Saving crop 7 50 



Expenses $22 00 

Net income from one acre $77 00 

In the same year that this crop was harvested in Georgia, 
we find from the Proceedings of the State Agricultural So- 
ciety of New York that the first premium was awarded to 
a raan who made a clear profit of $11 an acre! Mr. Corput 
ma]j:es, in Georgia, a clear profit of $77 on a single acre^ Mr. 
Copeland makes $153 clear profit on a single acre of Bur- 
muda, and Major Warren makes a clear profit of $60 an acre 
on a grass farm of 92 acres! 

Stock-raising is rapidly becoming one of the valuable re- 
sources of our farms. The next ten years will make aston- 
ishing developments in this line. Recent experiments ' in 
cattle-feeding have brought astonishing results in the use 
of cotton seed. Years ago we did not consider cotton seed 
worth the handling for any purpose whatever. First, we 
found they were good for manure. Next, we discovered they 
contained a valuable commercial product in their oil. This 
has been wonderfully remunerative. It has enriched largely 
those who have handled the seed. Without destroying either 
of these valuable elements, we find that we can get from 



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cottoii seed, fine product in beef and mutton, and still pre- 
serve all the oil, and almost every particle of fertilization. 
Sir J. B. Lawes is authority for saying that one ton of cotton 
seed meal, fed to a steer, will produce thirty dollars worth 
of manure. 

Dr. Jenkins, of the Connecticut Experiment Station, finds 
the manure from 

2,000 pounds of wheat bran worth $10 43 

2,000 pounds of corn meal worth 4 84 

2,000 pounds of linseed meal worth 17 25 

2,000 pounds of cotton seed meal worth .... 22 44 
The -actual cost of feeding, these products at usual prices, 
he finds, after deducting their value as manure. 

Wheat bran I 7 57 

Corn mftal 15 16 

Linseed meal 10 75 

Cotton seed meal 2 56 

Tlie Burmuda lands of Central and Southern Georgia 
afford pasturage for stock nearly the entire year, and the 
young cane along the water courses furnishes sufficient 
pasturage for the winter. Thus we have natural pasturage 
that will keep cattle through the year without expense, and 
we have the cheapest food in the world — cotton seed. This 
latter is used with splendid results in fattening cattle for 
the market. 



DAIRYING. 



In New York it was thought that a profit of |48 to the cow 
was suflficient to justify a premium. 

The following statements, furnished by Mr. B. W. Hunt, 
of Eatonton, Putnam county, Middle Georgia, will show up 
well for conditions in this State, in comparison with the 
result of dairying in New York: 

There is good pasture in Georgia from April 9th to October 
31st — 205 days. This means natural pasturage, and such 
made pastures as are unafl'ected by the weather between 
these dates. 

Hay feeding time ruuA from November 1 to April 8 — 160 
days. The season of pasture is longer and the season of hay 
feeding much shorter in Southern Georgia. Taking the feed- 
ing season, however, from November 1 to April 8 — 160 days 
— winter feed will cost fourteen cents a day, or |22.40. The 
summer feeding will not cost more than three cents a day, 
or |6.15; making a total of .128.55 for feeding a cow a year. 

"The yield controls the profit. If the dairyman gets what 
is considered a good yield, viz.: .300 pounds of butter per 
cow a year, we have from butter alone $75, or a net profit of 
$46.45. Even a much lower yield per cow will still show a 
profit, and there is left a valuable product, viz: butter milk or 
sldnimed milk. My own farm books show from butter alone, 
at forty cents per pound, gross income for five years from 



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an average of about eighteen cows, |T,773.G3, say 11,554.73 
a Year, or per cow each year, |8().37. I also sold much of the 
butter milk for an average of ten cents a gallon, which would 
bring the gross income largely over |100 per cow. Enough 
milk was fed on the farm to raise the calves. 

"Georgia cattle are practically free from tuberculosis and 
other deadly Northern diseases. Southern cattle fever will 
kill every mature cow it attacks, but as our cattle usually 
go through with this disease while calves, without the farmer 
being aware of the fact, and while they are so young, it is 
not dangerous, and it being a non-recurrent disease, they 
are thereafter immunes. I have long practiced with success ' 
giving the fever to all my milk-drinking calves, and we think 
no more of it than of vaccinating children to prevent small- 
pox.'' 

Mr. Hunt states, also, that last summer the farmers of 
Orange county, New York, informed him that milk brought 
thCiU 19-10 cents per quart. The Westchester county. New 
York, farmers said the condensed milk factories paid them 
2 1-10 cents for milk from selected dairy farms. The Middle 
Georgia dairy farmers were at that time selling to the stores 
their butter at 25 cents per pound. If we allow 8 quarts milk 
to the pound of butter, they were getting about 50 per cent, 
moi'e for their dairy produce than the New York farmers. 

It may be added that butter milk, or skimmed milk, sells 
for five cents a quart, or twenty cents a gallon, in Savannah, 
which is more than milk with the cream brings in New York. 
The New York and Northern dairies are located on land 
costing several times, possibly ten times, as much as the 
lands of the Georgia dairy farms, and feeding is very much 
more expensive. 

This explains the way in which Mr. Hunt can realize a 
profit of |80 a year on each cow in his dairy, when |48 is 
considered worthy of a premium in New York. 



TRUCK FARMING. 

"Truck" farming, or the raising of vegetables and fruits 
for the market, is now carried on in every section of the 
South. It is very remunerative, and enables an active and 
intelligent farmer or gardener to make a certain and com- 
fortable living upon a small holding. 

Maior G. M. Ryals, who has a truck farm near Savannah, 
is one of the most successful vegetable growers in Georgia. 
Truck farming, he says, is a special business, and requires 
judgment, application and constant watchfulness. But his 
ex])erience shows that it pays handsomely. 

Major Ryals begins truck farming in the fall. Living near 
Savannah, he has a mild winter and an early spring. In the 
fall, October and November, cabbages are sown; in December 
and January they are set out. In March shipping com- 
mences. As soon as the cabbages are marketed, corn is 



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I)ianted. When this is ready to lay by, cow peas are sown 
broadcast. Fodder is gathered from the corn, and cow peas 
and vines are harvested for cattle and hog feed. As soon as 
the corn is gathered, radishes are planted, and these are sold 
in the winter market at the rate of $2 a box. All this is from 
the same land — four crops in a year. 

From the cabbage crop he gathers 400 crates to the acre. 
Eiglit to twelve cabbages fill a crate of three bushels. These 
crates sell for a little more than a dollar, say |1.35 a crate; 
or $540 from the cabage crop. The corn brings in something 
like $30. The radishes add enough to run the proceeds from 
this acre beyond |600. 

Sometimes Major Ryals plants the land in tomatoes after 
gathering his cabbages. The tomatoes are ready for mar- 
keting in May, June and July. The last month is the best, 
as there is then no conflict with the Florida crop. A crop 
of hay is cut after the tomatoes are gathered, which is used 
for feed for cattle. Then the fall crop of tomatoes is planted. 
This is ready in November, and is used mainly for seed. Here 
we have a crop of cabbages worth, say $540; a crop of toma- 
toes worth, say |40 an acre; a crop of hay for cattle feed; 
and a crop of potatoes; which would also run the income 
above |600 to the acre. 

The season around Savannah is so mild that Major Ryals 
raises his lettuce in the midwinter. The only protection 
needed is a sheet of "crocus" sacks spread above the plants. 
No expensive hot-houses and glass conservatories are neces- 
sary. Sweet or English peas are ready for the table on 
Christmas day, and are shipped to the North as early as 
January 5th. The Major says that he made enough money on 
English peas in one year to give him a tender regard for 
this vegetable the rest of his life! 

He raises 500 bushels of beets and 500 bushels of cucum- 
bers to the acre; realizing something like |400 or $500 an 
acre for the latter. One spring his cucumbers were cut down 
by a late frost. His neighbors suffered the same loss ; but the 
Major immediately replanted, and got a week's start on his 
competitors. That week's start netted him $2,500 in profits 
on cucumbers. 

In every section of Georgia the raising of tomatoes can be 
followed with profit. About Savannah good profits have 
ber D realized for years. Enormous quantities of this vegeta- 
ble or fruit are used in our larger cities of the South, but very 
little of the product is raised in Georgia. Tomatoes can be, 
and have been, raised near Atlanta, Ga., for instance, at a 
clear profit of $40 an acre. A gentleman in the vicinity of 
Talbotton, in Middle Georgia, shipped enough tomatoes from 
an acre to clear $20; and afterwards canned enough to net 
him $20 more. It is thought that much better results can 
be had. One advantage the tomato has is that it is picked 
g-reeu, and can be shipped by freight, thereby securing very 



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iijucli lower rates of transportation than usual for other veg- 
etables and fruits. 



RAISING HOGS AND SHEEP. 

The raising of hogs, although very much neglected, offers 
a fme opportunity to the farmer. In all kinds of farming 
there is a great deal of waste that could be well utilized in 
feeding hogs. Besides we have excellent natural ranges in the 
canes and Burmuda fields for these animals. When fatten- 
ing, or better care is needed, the potato (sweet), the ground- 
nat (peanut, or groundpea, known also as "goober"), and the 
chufa afford excellent and abundant winter feed. All three 
cropf could be used, thus affording a greater variety in the 
feed. Mr. John O. Matthews, of Screven county, raises hogs 
and plants potatoes just for their use. The hogs get their 
feed by rooting, and the potatoes are kept fresh and sound 
in the earth all the winter, and there is no trouble or labor 
expended in harvesting and preserving them. His expe- 
rience is that there is a fine profit to be made in raising hogs 
ii' this way. 

Wherever the experiment has been tried the raising of 
hogs has proved successful ^nd profitable. With peanuts, 
chafas and potatoes to furnish cheap and nutritious fatten- 
ing food for the winter and with the natural ranges for them 
in spring, summer and fall, they can be raised more cheaply 
than anywhere else in the United States. As to a market, 
we have one at our doors. Georgia now buys her pork and 
bacon from the Northwest, merely because hogs are not 
raised here. 

In the manual on sheep husbandry in Georgia, issued by 
the State Agricultural Department some j^ears ago, we are 
told that Mr. David Ayer, in Southwest Georgia, reports that 
his sheep, 3,500 in number, cost him annually fourteen cents 
per head, and he clipped each year three prounds of un- 
washed wool, which sold at thirty cents per pound, giving a 
clear profit of ninety per cent, on the money and labor in- 
vested in sheep. Lands suited for sheep raising can be pur- 
chased in this State at from three to ten dollars per acre. 

These results Mr. Ayer produced from native sheep. If 
his sheep had been crossed on improved breeds, the results 
would have been increased at very little or no perceptible 
additional cost. 

In the same pamphlet it is further stated that Mr. Mc- 
DoAvell, of Pennsylvania, keeps 650 sheep, at a cost of |1.54 
annually per head. Mr. McDowell made a clip of four pounds 
of brook-washed wool per sheep, and sold it at fifty-six 
centh per pound, or |2.24 for each sheep sheared. His net 
])rofitK he estimates at forty-six per cent, on the capital in- 
vested. The land on which Mr. McDowell's sheep are pas- 
tured cost just five times as much per acre as Mr. Ayer's 
land. 



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It has been practically demonstrated that a sod of Bur- 
muda grass on lands unprofitable for cultivation will sup- 
port five sheep to the acre for nine months in the year. 

For the remaining three months of the year, at little cost, 
sheep can be furnished with grazing upon rye, with the aid 
of rutabaga turnips, which can be grown in abundance upon 
our average lands, made more and more fertile from year 
to year by the sheep themselves. 

One hundred sheep regularly folded will fertilize eight 
acres of land each year so as to increase the yield one hun- 
dred per cent. 

There are now less than half a million sheep in Georgia. 
Th(? State could profitably maintain four millions, and the 
increased value of crop products would be at least five mil- 
lion dollars. 

One farmer in South Georgia is able to put early spring 
lambs on the market in New York at the marvelous price 
of fifteen dollars apiece, with an average for the entire sea- 
son of five dollars per head. It must be remembered that 
our mild winters and early springs give us great advantage 
in this as other agricultural interests over sections north 
of us. 



STOCK RAISING. 

The raising of stock is an industry for which Georgia is 
especially adapted. The mild climate, splendid natural pas- 
turage furnished by Bermuda grass and cane, and the abund- 
ance of water, offer advantages that are unapproached else- 
where. 

Mr. John L. Dickey, who owns 4,500 acres of land on the 
Ogeechee River in Jefferson county, in eastern Middle 
Georgia, gives his experience in stock raising as follows: 

For the past three years he has conducted his stock farm. 
lie raises a high grade of horses and mules. The result has 
been highly satisfactory. Stock can be raised with less ex- 
pense here than anywhere else in the United States, not ex- 
cepting Tennessee or Kentucky. His pastures last the en- 
tiie year. The Bermuda grass, of which he has 1,200 acres, 
affords a splendid pasture all spring, summer and fall, and 
the cane furnishes pasturage all winter. He gives his stock 
no stall food. The pasturing is sufficient, and keeps his 
stock and cattle in such fine condition that beeves are fat 
enough for slaughter when taken from the field. 

Under these conditions, it costs Mr. Dickey less than |15 
to raise a mule for two years, when he is ready for the mar- 
ket, and brings |125. He raises mules that are sixteen hands 
high at two years. Horses of standard trotting stock cost 
hira f 25 apiece to raise to two years. They bring |150 apiece. 
Mr. Dickey is successfully raising Jersey cattle, and is 
now introducing the Devon. 



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Land suitable for such stock farms can be bought in the 
vicinity for |8 to |iO an acre; this means well watered land, 
wirh natural pasturage. 

Mr Dickey has planted 14,000 peach trees, and will soon 
have an orchard of 100 acres. 

Tha country produces peaches of excellent flavor and qual- 
ity. He raised this year upon his farm forty-two bushels of 
oats to the acre, or 42,000 bushels from 1,000 acres. He says 
tliat this yield has never been equaled, to his knowledge, in 
the United States, upon so extensive a scale. This shows 
how varied are the products and opportunities of the State. 



FRUIT GROWING. 

Thc^ following article, which appeared in the columns of 
the Savannah Press, on the subject of fruit growing, will be 
interesting reading: 

The Land of the Fruit Grower. — The pioneer peach grower 
in Georgia is Mr. Samuel H. Rumph, of Marshallville. His 
orchards are midway between Marshallville and Fort Valley, 
on the Central i;. il. of Georgia. Willow Lake Nursery is 
situated in Houston county, and the superb trees of peaches 
and plums spring from the soil of the same fruit belt which ' 
made luxurious the Hale orchards of Fort Valley. The coun- 
try between Fort Valley and Marshallville, in fact, is one 
long string of orchards and vineyards. It is estimated that 
in these few miles are more fruit trees than any similar ter- 
ritor}' in the world. In a space which could be covered by 
the notes of the steam whistle there are 1,000,000 peach trees, 
20,000 pear trees, and then come plum trees and grape vines 
until sight fails and sound falls away in the immensity of 
space. 

Years ago this land was worn and worked and almost ex- 
hausted with rapid succession of cotton crops. The war 
came, the slave left, and then arose the question, what shall 
be done with all this waste? Most of the farmers of Houston 
c(nmty were land poor. Among them was Samuel Rumph, 
n young boy, who had been left with a widowed mother and 
a large family of sisters and brothers. Living with the fam- 
ily was an elderly lady — the grandmother — who came to 
Georgia from Connecticut and who had a great idea of the 
value of the peach in the Northern market. She realized 
that an early Georgia peach, if it could be shipped promptly 
and safely to the North, would be of immense value.. This 
Ider. she impressed upon her grand-son with all the zeal of a 
hobby and the young boy in 1868 had the good sense to adopt 
it. It may be recorded that when the ^reat orchards of 
Willnrd Lake had become sources of immense revenue the 
elderly lady was still living to see the full fruition of her 
plan. She died in 1893 in the 88th year of her age. 



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It must not be expected that these orchards grew up in a 
single night. Great work isn't accomplished that wa}^ The 
industry was a new one in Georgia. The way was long and 
the interest was attended by many discouragements. There 
was nothing to guide Samuel Kumph in his new departure 
except his own experience, and year after year it seemed 
that ne was pursuing a barren hope. His neighbors laughed 
at the idea of a man ever making a living out of a peach 
farm. The blight came and the frosts fell, and the worms 
appeared, and nature seemed to conspire against this Uto- 
pian dream. But young Rumph worked early and late. He 
watched every tree, improved every graft, developed every 
promising peach, and looked after his shipments. He placed 
all his eggs in one basket, but he watched the basket. He 
had faith in his work. He knew that in the end nature must 
yield. Pretty soon he found that his peaches readily be- 
came bruised in shipping and that hundreds of crates were 
useless. So he set about developing a fine, large variety, 
v;idch, when perfected, he named the Elberta, in honor of 
his wife. 

T(-i give some idea of the value of this estate, I may say 
that Mr. Rumph sold one crop of peaches at |52,000 and an- 
other at 164,000. His place is a model. His home is ele- 
gr.ntiy appointed, with water works, electric lights, and a 
long line of telephone reaching to his orchards, packing 
hour^es, and to the railway station. The front yard is a 
bower of shrubs and flowers, the.place is skirted by Spanish 
oaks, while 80,000 peach trees are bearing their rich offer- 
ings day and night in sight of all this comfort. From sup- 
})lying the local trade, Mr. Rumph has now become one of 
the largest shippers of fruit in the South. He has just 
started a new place near Marshallville. In 1884 Mr. Rumph 
planted a peach orchard near Fort Valley. This fruit com- 
menced to bear in 1889, and in that year alone there were 
shipjjed from that town 137 carloads of peaches. This year 
the shipments of all the orchards from Marshallville brought 
into the fruit growers of that part of Macon and Houston 
counties over |200,000. 

Besides peaches, Mr. Rumph has the largest plum orchard 
in 1he world. There are over 15,000 Japanese plum trees in 
one place, and in the nursery near by there are 200,000 seed- 
liQgs, worth 115,000 whenever they are sold. He has 30,000 
raspberry bushes in cultivation. Mr. Rumph's friends pre- 
di<T that his nursery sales this year will net him |T0,000 at 
least, and that his peach shipments will bring in |00,000 
more. One hundred and thirty thousand dollars as the in- 
come of one year's business has a better ring about it than 
Wall street, and yet it is so. 



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In fruit growing in tlie South, as well as the same business 
in any other locality in our country, the problems of location, 
varie'^ies, culture, handling, transportation, and markets are 
all essential factors, contributing to success or failure. The 
commercial fruit grower in the South needs as much brain 
and as varied a range of knowledge as the fruit grower in 
any other section of our country, but we do not iiesitate to 
make the general proposition that fruit culture in Georgia 
promises as satisfactory returns to those who will cultivate 
and handle their fruits in an intelligent and careful man- 
ner, as could be received from the same application of skill 
and industry in any of the most favored fruit regions in our 
country. 

Not only are the Northern markets open to peach growers 
in this section, but the Southern market along the Gulf sec- 
tion is open to our late peaches. That market is at present 
scarcely supplied at all with late peaches. These varieties 
can be grown in the Piedmont region and shipped South at 
a large profit,, as there is always a demand for them in the 
proper season. Georgia peaches have already established 
a reputation for quality. In' all the Northern markets they 
are quoted at the very top. The intelligent consumer asks 
the question, "Have you any Georgia peaches?" "We do 
not want California fruit if we can get Georgia fruit" is a 
common expression heard every day in front of the fruit 
stands in the Northern cities. 

If fruit growing in the North is profitable on lands worth 
anywhere from $50 to |100 per acre, it must certainly be 
more profitable on lands in the South that are worth from 
$5 to |10 per acre, and where labor can always be had at 
a cheap rate. Then again we have no expense of irrigation 
as in California, and do not have to cross a continent to reach 
the markets. 

This section of country is also admirably adapted to the 
culture of plums, especially the Wild Goose and the new 
varieties of Japanese plums, which have proved a complete 
success in this section, and can be shipped to any Northern 
market or to Canada with perfect success. 

The same statements will apply to grapes, for which all 
this section is well adapted, and as they can be got into 
Northern markets before grapes are ripe there, they com- 
mand a better price than Northern grapes do. Any one who 
will take the pains to investigate the adaptation of this sec- 
tion to fruit growing in all its branches can be convinced 
that it is pre-eminently suited for the fruit industry in all 
of its branches. 



Some of the PrinciDal Cities and Towns 

TOUCHED BY THE 

Central R. R. of Georgia Suslem 



ATLANTA, GA. 

The capital of Georgia; population 110,000; is a great rail- 
road centre; one of the largest and most progressive cities 
of the South; does an immense jobbing business throughout 
the Southern States. There are a number of manufactories of 
various kinds located here, shipping their outputs to the mar- 
kets of the world. The street electric railway system is com- 
plete. Banking facilities ample; fine public schools; climate 
the year round unsurpassed, mild and dry in winter, no ex- 
cessive heat in summer; is surrounded by a country of great 
fertility, producing grain, cotton, vegetables and very fine 
fruits. No other city of its size and population in America 
could have accomplished in the same time what she has 
done in the matter of the Cotton States and International 
Exposition to be held September 18 to December 31, 1895. 

GRIFFIN, GA. 

Located in the great fruit growing section of Georgia, on 
the main stem of the Central Railroad, 42 miles from At- 
lanta, is a thifty growing place, well worth the attention of 
those interested in fruit culture. The temperature there is 
mild, and the atmosphere very light and dry. Altitude of 
over 1,000 feet above level of the sea. Population 5,000. 

EARNESVILLE, GA. 

A prosperous town 60 miles south of Atlanta, of 2,000 in- 
habitants. Some of the best fruit farms of the State in the 
surrounding country. There is located here a large buggy 
factory; also cotton mills and several other industries, and 
a large and flourishing military school, the commandant be- 
ing an officer from West Point, N. Y. 

FORSYTH, GA. 

27 miles north of Macon. Elevation of 900 feet above sea 
level. Industries: Carriage works, cotton factory, cotton 
seed oil mill, guano factory, etc. Fine fruits are grown, 
grapes, peaches, apples, pears, figs. Within a radius of one 
mile are orchards containing over 200,000 peach trees. Lo- 
.cated in the azoic belt, whose red loam furnishes the iron 
that has given the Georgia ?fteach such notoriety for richness 
of lint and delicacy of flavor. 



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MACON, GA. 

The "Central City" is one of the most desirable places in 
the Union from a sanitary point of view, in the salubrity of 
the climate, in the inestimable advantage of a pure water 
supply, in transportation facilities and commercial advan- 
tages, in the moral tone of the people, and the unbroken good 
order of society. Cotton factories, flour mills, candy and 
cracker manufactories, lumber and wood working establish- 
ments, brick works, beer brewing, marble and stone works 
and other industries are successfully operated here. 

The city has unequalled^ drainage. The maximum tempera- 
ture is 90 degrees, the minimum 28. and the mean 07. The 
rainfall for the last ten years has averaged 48.75 inches. 

Banking capital, |1,900,000. Population, 30,000. 

TENNILLE, WADLEY, MILLEN, GA. 

These towns are located in districts producing cotton, 
corn, peaches, grapes, pears, and having fine timber lands. 

MARSHALLVILLE, OGLETHORPE, MONTEZUMA, 
BUTLER, GA. 

Are thriving towns in the peach and melon district. 

MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. 

A town of 4,000 inhabitants, situated in Baldwin county. 
At one time the capital of the State. Here are located the 
Georgia Normal and Industrial College, the Middle Georgia 
Military and Agricultural College and the State Lunatic 
Asylum. It is surrounded by fine farming lands. 

AUGUSTA, GA. 

Augusta, Ga., is a progressive, growing Southern city. 
Owing to the excellent water power facilities, it does an im- 
mense manufacturing business; has 12 cotton factories, ag- 
gregate capital 17,170,000, employing 5,861 persons, con- 
suming 85,000 bales of cotton per annum; annual value of 
manufactured products |8,G.30,000. Population 42,000. Has 
23 miles of electric street railways. Banking capital |1,125,- 
000. 

SAVANNAH, GA. 

Population 65,000. The chief naval store port of the world 
and the second largest cotton port in America. The harbor, 
which extends 18 miles from the city to the ocean, is fre- 
quently filled with vessels from all parts of the world. Savan- 
nah is justly proud of her fine water works plant, producing 
10,000,000 gallons of pure artesian well water per day. This 
water is delivered direct from the mains into residences, 
thereb^ avoiding any contact with any impure matter what- 
ever. In the country contiguous are many prosperous truck 
farmers, growing all kinds of vegetables and fruits, which 



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are shipped to the Noi'thern markets by the different ocean 
steamei' lines plyiuj; between Savannah, Boston, New York, 
Philadelphia and Baltimore. Savannah does a large job- 
bing trade, as w^ell as having many large and important man- 
ufacturing industries. It is also a noted winter resort, 
thousands of Northern tourists visiting the city during the 
winter. Its hotels are very attractive. The De Soto ranks 
among the best appointed hotels in the United States. 

Savannah is one of the most beautiful cities in the United 
States. It is called the "Forest City," on account of the grand 
old trees which shade its streets. 

TYBEE, GA. 

Georgia's greatest seaside resort, 18 miles from Savannah, 
at terminus of Savannah and Atlantic Railroad (part of the 
Central Railroad sj-stem). There is to be found here a firm, 
smooth beach of pure white sand, three miles long; an ideal 
summer resort. Hotels, cottages and club houses are open 
from the beginning of summer till 1st of September. Persons 
living along the lines of the Central Railroad system can 
find here rest, recreation and pleasure whenever time from 
business permits. Cheap round trip tickets are sold, and 
frequent excursions are run from the interior of Georgia 
and Alabama during the seashore s.eason to this delightful 
spot, thus enabling the patrons of the line opportunity for 
frequent outings at small cost. 

FORT VALLEY, GA. 

In the heart of the great fruit growing section of the South, 
has been termed the Fruit Paradise of the United States; is 
on the Southwestern Division of Central R. R., 29 miles south- 
west of Macon. Ga. This is the home of the peach. A large 
amount of Northern capital is invested in peach orchards. 

Fort Valley is located on high pine land. The winters are 
delightful, the thermometer seldom going below 30 degrees. 
Population 2,500. 

AMERICUS, GA. 

County seat of Sumter county, junction of Southwestern 
division and Savannah & Western division of the Central 
R. R. of Ga. Population 8,000. Banking capital $500,000. 
Water works, public schools, sanitary sewerage, ice factory, 
cotton seed oil mill, guano factory, cotton gin factory, and a 
number of small manufactories. Cotton receipts, 60,000 
bales — tw'o cotton compresses. Does a large jobbing trade. 
Is in the heart of the fruit belt. 

ANDERSON VILLE, GA. 

Located on Central Railroad of Georgia, ten miles north- 
west of Americus. The "National Cemetery," where there 
are thousands of Union soldiers buried, is located at this 
point. Persons desiring to visit this historic place of civil 
war fame can stop over at Americus and reach it easily from 
that point. Convenient schedules are operated between 
Americus and Andersonville. 



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DAWSON, GA. 

Has a population of 3,000. Lands are rich and productive. 
Fine fruit growing country, especially peaches and pears be- 
ing grown to perfection. Has a good system of water works, 
cotton compress, variety manufacturing company with well 
equipped plant. 

CUTHBERT, GA. 

Is a thriving town of 3,000 inhabitants. Has two tanne- 
ries and cotton manufacturing company. 

Neighboring farms grow pecan and other nut trees, grapes, 
berries, peaches, pears, figs. One of the best schools for 
girls in the South is located here. A number of settlers have 
already made their homes within the county and are pros- 
pering. 

ALBANY, GA. 

The metropolis of Southwest Georgia, situated on a high 
level plain; population 7,000. Fine banking facilities, with 
capital and surplus of |250,000. Electric lights, fine water 
works, and sewerage system; pure artesian water in an 
abundant supply. Fine schools; churches representing all 
religious denominations. Some of the industries are, guano 
factories, brick yards, s^ariety wood works. A large acreage 
of surrounding country is devoted to fruit culture, peaches, 
pears, grapes, melons, etc. 

EUFAULA, ALA. 

Located on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River in 
Barbour county, Alabama. Population 7,000. Large cotton 
mills, besides many other manufacturing industries, are 
located here. The Board of Trade of Eufaula invite corre- 
spondence relative to the advantages of Eufaula. 

MONTGOMERY, ALA. 

The Capital City of Alabama, on the Western terminus of 
Montgomery & Eufaula Railroad, an important part of the 
Central Railroad of Georgia system. Population 25,000. 
An important agricultural centre and cotton market, has 
complete water system, fine public schools, thoroughly 
equipped electric car lines, well lighted by gas and elec- 
tricity, has ample banking facilities. Excellent opportuni- 
ties are offered here to manufacturers. It has a population 
noted for its intelligence, refinement, good morals and pro- 
gressiveness. 

TROY, ALA. 

On the Mobile & Girard Railroad (a part of Central Rail- 
road system); has population of 5,000. The county seat of 
Pike county; surrounded by the best farming lands in that 
section of Alabama; is contiguous to large belts of pine and 
hard wood forests. Chief industries are knitting mills, fer- 
tilizer works, carriage and buggy factory, machine shops, 
spoke and handle factory and two large planing mills. Health 



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of tbis place good. Weather mild in winter and no excessive 
iieat in summer. 

BIKMINGHAM, ALA. 

Birmingham, Ala., the Magic City, a great commercial me- 
tropolis, is in the center of a very populous district, and is 
too well known to need much mention, its industries too vg,- 
ried and numerous to describe herein. It is in the center of 
a rich coal and iron district, and a formidable competitor of 
Pittsburg as a market for pig-iron. 

Birmingham is thoroughly lighted by electricity, has a fine 
system of electric and dummy car service, with frequent and 
convenient schedules to all the important suburban towns. 
Its fine hotels, immense wholesale stores, handsome public 
buildings, rank favorably with those of much larger and 
older cities. Five great railroad systems touching here 
afford complete transportation facilities for all classes of 
traflQc. 

OPELIKA, ALA. 

Opelika, the county seat of Lee county, is on a high ridge 
812 feet above the level of the Gulf of Mexico, and has a 
greater altitude than any city of Alabama. The population 
within a radius of two miles of the Court House is about 
6,500. It is the junction point of two railroad systems, 
namely: Central of Georgia, and Western of Alabama, and 
is directly on the through line of railway travel from the 
West to the South, and from New York to New Orleans. 

The climate is delightful the year round, and there is free- 
dom from all malarious, contagious and infectious diseases. 
It is lighted by electricity, has a complete system of water 
works, a telephone exchange, a |50,000 hotel, thi'ee banks 
with a capital of $250,000. There is located here a cotton 
compress, fertilizer works, cotton seed oil mills, flour and 
grist mills, furniture factory, iron foundry and machine 
shops, two sash, door and blind factories, and many other 
industries. 

COLUMBUS, GA. 

The Queen City of the Chattahoochee Valley, and justly 
termed "the Lowell of the South," from its vast manufactur- 
ing industries, has a population of 30,000 within a radius of 
two miles of the Court House. The health record there is 
splendid, there never having been an epidemic, and her death 
rate is the smallest of any city of her population in the 
United States. In value, her cotton manufactories lead all 
other industries, there being six, giving emplovment to 4,000 
operatives, with a combined capital of 13,960,000. The an- 
nual consumption of cotton in these mills exceed 50,000 bales. 
The best ice machines now in use are manufactured here, 
and are shipped to all parts of the United States. 



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COMPARISON IN VALUES BETWEEN NORTHERN 
AND SOUTHERN FARMS. 

The lands and other pieces of property offered for sale 
herein will be found remarkably cheap. Prices are very 
greatly below what they are in the North and West. And 
when we consider the greater length of our seasonable 
weather, the mildness of our winters, the greater variety of 
our agricultural products, the advantages had in our natural 
pastures for the entire year, the greater profits realized in 
the raising of fruit, vegetables, and stock, and the vastly 
greater material comforts of living in our genial climate, 
the difference between the prices of land named herein and 
in the North and West will appear striking by comparison. 
For instance, we find advertised in real estate catalogues 
published in the North that ordinary farm lands in Pennsyl- 
vania are offered for |35, |75, |80 and |100 an acre. The same 
quality of land here, in communities offering equal advanta- 
ges and comforts of civilization, can be bought at prices 
ranging from |5 to |15; while good farm lands, a little far- 
ther from the railroad, can be had for $1.50 to |5 an acre. 

The Southern lands have this difference in their favor: 
they can produce crops of grass, fruit, or vegetables, or raise 
stock, that will bring in far greater profits than any lands 
North or West — because our season is milder, our variety 
of products so much greater, we reach the market earlier, 
and our cattle and stock cost practically nothing to raise. 

Attention is invited to the many excellent properties and 
opportunities offered in this list, for farmers and capitalists. 




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LIST OF PROPERTIES FOR SALE, 



GEORGIA IMMIGRATION .^ INVESTMENT CO., 
ATLANTA, GA. 



No. 433. 
(A). One of the prettiest little fruit farms in Middle 
Georgia, contaiuino- 20 acres more or less, lying in the city 
limits of Milledgeville, Ga., a place of 4,000 inhabitants. In 
the fruit belt and second to none in poiijt of health. A new 
5-room cottage, plastered and painted ; dairy and wellhouse, 
with a well of pure free-stone water — well 90 feet deep; 
2-story barn and sheds for stock; 2-room servant's house; 
2,000 fruit trees and vines — peaches, apples, pears, plums, 
cherries, raspberries, blackberries, strawlDerrry and aspara- 
gus beds — mostly in Elberta and Alexander peaches, of 
which the orchard will bear between 500 and 1,000 bushels. 
Ten acres are in woods, and 6 in fine Bermuda. Finely wa- 
tered by large creek and springs. This would make a splen- 
did dairy, fruit and vegetable farm. A very valuable and 
desirable property. |3,200. 

No. 434. ' 
(6 B). Fine water power on Oconee River. Following is 
taken from United States survey: "From head of Friday's 
Shoals to low water mark opposite Milledgeville, fall of 
54.33 feet. Distance by river eight and one-half miles. Dis- 
tance on straight line, six miles." As determined by survey 
of a civil engineer, fall from Carter's or Furman's Shoals 
to low water opposite Milledgeville, 34.20 feet; distance by 
river, 5 miles; by straight, S^ miles. Flow estimated in 
summer, 2,000 cubic feet per second, equal to 7,000 horse 
power. Cost of development estimated at |62.50 per horse 
power. Abundance of stone and best material for brick 
easily accessible. A^ellow pine lumber at .f 10 a thousand de- 
livered. Pri«es and terms can be ascertained by corre- 
spondence. 

No. 435. 
(7 B). A magnificent plantation of 2,085 acres, lying broad- 
side to the corporate limits of the city of Milledgeville for a 
distance of two miles. The place is well watered. Fishing 
creek, the source of the water supply of the city, divides the 
farm in half, while several smaller streams flow into this 
creek. 75 acres of fine bottom land, producing GO bushels of 
oats to the acre. 1,000 acres of cleared land ; rest in oak and 
hickory and second growth pine. Land could be divided 



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into lots of 2.") or 50 acres each; lots fronting city should 
bring at least |50 an acre; and those on the public roads at 
least $25. All this land is accessible to railways and city. 
Climate delightful and healthful the year round. $10 an 
acre for entire tract. 

No. 444. 
(A). 1,500 acres. One of the very handsomest farms in 
Bibb County, Middle Georgia. Lands all lie well, of excellent 
quality, in good state of cultivation, well watered and tim- 
bered. Improvements first-rate. A fine 2-story dwelling, hand- 
some yard and fine grove surrounding house. Near railway 
station and market. The improvements could hardly be put 
on for the price asked for the whole. Valuable farm and 
beautiful home. |15,000. Bibb Co. is in Central Georgia. Ma- 
con, the county seat, is the fourth city of the State, and has 
a population of about 35,000 to 40,000. It is a progressive 
and thorough-going business place. As a railway center, 
it is next to Atlanta among Southern cities. It is one of the 
most beautiful and delightful cities in the United States. 
The county possesses great natural advantages, its central 
location giving it many opportunities for trade, Macon being 
the head of navigation on the Ocmulgee. The soil is fertile 
and well adapted to fruits, grass and general farm crops. 
Splendid water power is to be had on the river Just above 
Macon. The climate is pleasant and healthful. 

No. 445. 
(A). 700 acres. A good farm. Improvements fair. Good 
timber and water a'nd in good state of cultivation. |5,000. 

No. 446. 
(A). 880 acres. An excellent farm. Good strong land and 
one of the best combination stock and general farms in Mid- 
dle Georgia. Good upland and bottom. Good timber and 
well watered. Improvements fair. $8,000. 

No. 447. 
(A). 3,034 acres. One of the finest plantation in Middle 
Georgia. Good upland and rich river bottom. Part of the 
bottom well set in fine Bermuda grass. An ideal stock farm. 
A large body of valuable timber on the place, which has 
been carefully preserved. $18,000. 

No. 455. 
(A). 500 acres, 275 under plow, 225 in oak and hickory. 
yv,e\\ watered by wells and streams. 6 tenant houses; 4 of 
1 room and 2 of 3 rooms; 6 barns. In Burke Co., 5 miles from 
Waynesboro, the county seat, and 3 from church and school. 
$3,500. Burke Co. has long been distinguished for its fine agri- 
cultural lands. It is unsurpassed in its production of cot- 
ton, and is finely adapted to cane, corn, oats, peas and other 
farm crops, to fruits and vegetables and to stock raising. 
It lies along the Savannah River and is immediately south of 
Richmond; Augusta, a few miles distant, furnishing a good 



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home market aud excellent sbi])piiig facilities to the North, 
East and West. The Central K. K. runs directly through the 
middle of the county, and besides, passes with its main line 
through the southern end. Waynesboro, the county seat, 
is a progressive and pleasant town, on the Central Railroad, 
between Augusta and Savannah. It is 100 miles from Savan- 
nah and 32 miles from Augusta. 

No. 45G. 
(A). 040 acres, IGO under plow, 00 in forest. Watered by 
several sti-eams and large creek. 4-room residence; small 
barn ; 3 tenant houses. Orchard of peaches. Finely adapted 
to general farming, fruit and stock raising. G miles from 
railway station, 10 from Waynesboro, 2 from church and 
school. |1,100. Terms to suit purchaser. 

No. 459. 
(13 A). An excellent farm of 1,500 acres; 400 under plow; 
comfortable residence of 4 rooms, and 6 small farm houses; 
2 good w^ells, several springs, and 2 large creeks on place. 
PostofSce on the farm; good roads. This place has rented 
for 1000 annually. It is especially adapted to a stock farm, 
as the Bermuda grass is very fine. |6,500. Third cash, bal- 
ance 1, 2, and 3 years. 

No. 460. 

(14 R). 219^ acres in one body, 9 miles from Waynesboro, 
on the Thompson Bridge public road, 146 acres of upland, 
73| of first bottom, 143^ in cultivation, 6 in pasture, 1 of 
orchard and 6 of timber — oak, ash and hickory; 162 under 
ash and pine fences in very good condition, and generally 
level; w^atered by Briar Creek and branch. Improvements 
are a one-story frame, shingle roof, of 2 rooms, and 2 log 
tenant houses on the farm, all in good repair. 

No. 464. 

(A). 1,350 acres, 300 fenced, 500 under plow, 500 in oak and 
hickory, 150 in pine. W^ell watered, 12 tenant houses of 1 
and 2 rooms, 4 barns, stockades, cribs and cotton houses. 
Three miles from railway station, 12 from county seat. Five 
dollars an acre, third cash, balance on easy time. This 
county is in Southwest Georgia. Its lands are finely 
adapted to general farm crops, stock and fruit raising. The 
soil is excellent, and there is abundance of timber and water. 
The Central Railroad affords good transportation facilities. 
Morgan, the county seat, is a few miles from the railway. 

No. 526. 

(A). 160 acres, 16 miles from Atlanta, on Central Railroad 
of Georgia, lying alongside railroad right-of-way, and within 
quarter of a mile of "Morrow," a regular stop for all trains. 
125 acres cleared, but not in cultivation this year. Well 
watered and good for grasses, grains and fruit. Dwelling 
and out-houses in fairly ^[ood condition. Could be made a 
very fine stock, dairy or truck farm. .$3,300; half cash; bal- 



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ance on easy time with interest. Clayton is directly south 
of and adjoining Fulton. It possesses good soil and climate. 
Its nearness to Atlanta gives it a fine market tor vegetables, 
small fruits and dairy and farm products. Jonesboro, the 
county seat, is a nice place, 21 miles from Atlanta. 

No. 638. 
(A). Three settlements, consisting respectively of 250, 250, 
and 335 acres; 100 acres of each settlement cleared and 
ready for cultivation; each is also providt^d with necessary 
out-buildings, cribs, etc.; land is level, soil sandy loam and 
productive; there is abundance of pine timber on this prop- 
erty; 7 miles from railway and Court House at Albany; 3 
miles from church and school; this is a magnificent body 
of farming land, and suitable for fruit and stock. |8 an 
acre, one-third cash, balance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. 639. 

(A). 900 acres, 600 under plow; plenty of yellow pine tim- 
ber; watered by springs, streams, and the Flint River; divi- 
ded into 2 settlements, one of 400 and one of 500 acres ; soil 
sandy loam and clay, very fertile; 3^ miles from railway and 
Court House at Albany. 

No. 640. 

(A). 650 acres; 600 cleared, balance in yellow pine; good 
well of water; soil gray loam with clay subsoil, productive; 
tenant houses; property rents' for 20 bales of cotton; the 
tract could be cut up into 100-acre lots; 100 acres of this 
property is being improved by planting vines, trees, etc; 3^ 
miles from Albany; this is a splendid property for gen- 
eral farming, fruit, stock, and vegetables. |10 "to |12 an 
acre, according to selection; one-third cash, balance easy 
time. 

No. 642. 

(A). 165 acres, all under plow ; 10 acres in assorted fruits — 
peaches, pears, etc.; 1 mile from Albany, and is suburban 
property; soil gray loam, and very productive; fine dwelling 
of 8 rooms, built of brick, all of the rooms heated ; 1 large 
barn, several tenant houses; the improvements on this place 
cost 15,000; it adjoins the corporate limits of Albany, and 
could be cut up for residence lots; splendidly adapted to 
truck farming, fruits, etc.; this is a magnificent bargain. 

111,000. 
No. 643. 
(A). 551 acres, nearly all under cultivation; 10 acres in 
peaches, 3 acres in grapes; soil sandy loam, very productive; 
6 houses, 2 to 4 rooms each ; railroad borders the land on 
one side and Kinchafoonee Creek on the other; well suited 
to fruits and general farming; could be cut up into farms of 
100 acres each; this place is within 1 mile of Albany, and is 
valuable on account of its nearness to fine railway facilities 
and to one of the best cities in the State; it is suburban prop- 
erty. $22 an acre. 



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No. G44. 

(A). 1,300 acres, 8 under plow, balance in fine yellow pine 
timber and river bottom lands, with splendid cane pasturage 
on the Flint River; soil sandy gray loam, and very fertile; 
a number of tenant houses; suitable to the cultivation of sea 
island cotton and short staple cotton, melons, peaches, and 
other fruits, and would make a magnificent stock farm. |6 
an acre, one-third cash, balance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. G46. 

(A). 298 acres, 188 under plow, balance in yellow pine tim- 
ber; soil sandy loam, productive; number of tenant houses; 
G miles from railway station and Court House at Albany; 
fine farming land, in good section of the county and State; 
church and schools 3 miles distant; suitable for fruits, mel- 
ons, etc., general farming, and stock. |10 an acre, one-third 
cash, balance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. 647. 

(A). 500 acres, 160 open and suitable for cultivation, 35 
acres in peaches; 3 new cabins on the place; 5 miles west of 
Albany, on the Central Railroad; suitable for fruits, general 
farming, etc. |11 an acre. 

No. 648. 

(A). 66 acres, all valuable suburban property, 1 mile west 
of Albany; land is fertile and suitable for fruits, dairying, 
or truck farming; 45 acres open and 21 in timber; this is a 
fine place for the money. |1,000. 

No. 649. 

(A). 65 acres, 1 mile west of Albany; valuable suburban 
property, and can be sold in smaller lots at an advance in 
price; would make a good truck farm, orchard, vineyard, 
etc.; no improvements; all under cultivation. ^25 an acre, 
one-third cash, balance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. 650. 

(A). 500 acres, one-half in cultivation, the rest in timber; 
this place is 3 miles east of Albany ; good farming land, and 
would make a desirable place for fruit, stock raising, or 
dairying. $12 an acre, one-half cash, balance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. 651. 

(A). 750 acres, all under plow ; soil a sandy clay loam, very 
productive; 1 large barn and 5 tenant houses; 1 acre in ap- 
ples, 1 in peaches, and 1 in pears, 2^ in grapes; adapted to 
fruits and general farm crops, and to stock raising; property 
is 5 miles from railway station and 5 from Court*House. $7 
an acre, third cash, balance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. 652. 

(A). 400 acres, 300 under plow; 10 acres in pears; soil 
Bandy loam, productive and suitable for the growing of gen- 
eral farm crops, fruits, vegetables, and for the raising of 
stock; 4-room house and 7 tenant houses, 1 barn; 6 miles 
from Albany. $7 an acre, third cash, balance in 1 and 2 years. 



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No. 053. 

(A). 1,000 acres, 250 under plow; abundance of pine tim- 
ber; soil sandy loam, good; 3 tenant houses; 2^ miles from 
railway station and 7 from Albany; adapted to fruit, usual 
farm crops, stock raising, etc. |7 an acre, third cash, bal- 
ance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. G55. 

(A). 800 acres, 300 under plow; soil good sandy loam; place 
allowed to run down; 4 tenant houses; adapted to fruits and 
general crops, or raising of stock; 8 miles from railway sta- 
tion and from Albany. |4 an acre, half cash, balance to suit 
purchaser. 

No. 656. 

(A). 1,000 acres, 400 under plow, balance in yellow pine 
timber and old fields; several tenant houses; soil good sandy 
loam, and adapted to fruits, vegetables, general crops, and 
stock raising; a good property, but allowed to run down. 
^4 an acre; 7 miles from Albany. 

No. 657. 

(A), 750 acres, 500 under plow, rest in pine timber; soil 
productive; adapted to general crops, stock raising and fruit; 
several tenant houses; property is only 2 miles east of Al- 
bany, and lies well for small farms, orchards, etc. In body, 
fl5 per acre; or |10 to |20 an acre, according to selection; 
half cash, balance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. 669. 

(A), 1,000 acres, 600 fenced, 450 under plow, 350 in pine 
timber, some hickory and oak. Nice 7-room dwelling, 2 
barns, 8 tenant houses. Fine water power, sufficient to run 
grist mill and gin at same time. Land lies on Chattahoochee 
Biver, 8 miles from railway station at Blakely, the county 
seat. |3,000; |2,500 cash, balance easy. Early is on the 
east bank of the Chattahoochee River. It has a productive 
soil, and is finely watered and timbered, and is in a splendid 
agricultural section. The lands are adapted to general crops, 
to melons, and fruit, and to stock raising. The climate is 
temperate and healthful. Steamboats on the river afford 
good transportation to Columbus, and to the Gulf; and the 
Central Railroad passes through the center of the county, 
giving excellent railway facilities to Albany and beyond. 
Blakely, the county seat, is on the Central, and is" a promis- 
ing town. 

No. 670. 

(A). 875 ^cres, 500 fenced, 375 under plow, well watered 
and timbered. Good orchard of various fruits. Good 6-roora 
residence, 4 barns, 5 tenant houses, with pure well of water 
at each. Location one of the best in county. 5 miles from 
Blakely. |8,000; half cash, balance 1 year. 

No. 671. 

(A). 22 large building lots, in the thriving town of Blakely, 
county seat of Early. Lots are from 1^ to 3 acres, and can be 



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bought for $50 to ^200 a lot. The location is beautiful and 
healthful. More specific information on application, 

No. 672. 
(B). 1,300 acres of very fertile farm land, with abundance 
of white oak and walnut timber. 3 miles from Blakely, the 
county seat. Has not been in cultivation for 2 years. Sev- 
eral houses suitable for dwellings. |5 an acre; third cash, 
balance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. 673. 
(A). 2,500 acres of unimproved land, except 2 farms of 250 
acres each. Lands are heavily timbered, and will make fine 
farms after the timber is cut. Railway station on the land. 
Price of unimproved land $3 an acre. One of the farms has 
90 acres in cultivation, balance in fine timber, comfortable 
6-room house, 3 barns and 2 tenant houses, and is a very 
desirable property; price $2,500. The other farm is small; 
$3.50 an acre. 

No. 802. 
(A). 675 acres, 200 fenced, 250 under plow, 200 in second 
growth pine, and 100 in oak and hickory. Watered by 5 wells 
and 6 or 7 streams. 4 frame houses of 2 to 5 rooms each; 
3 barns and out-houses. The body of land is in 2 settlements; 
both have good improvements. One place quarter mile from 
railway station, the other 2 miles. School, church and post- 
office within 1 or 2 miles. Quantity of fruit. Very 
valuable property. $5,850, 1 and 2 years time. Harris is in 
Western Central Georgia, on the east bank of the Chattahoo- 
chee River. It is a good farming and fruit section, and has 
a healthful and pleasant climate. It is well watered and 
timbered. Hamilton, the county seat, is on the Central Rail- 
road, and is a good town. The Central Railroad afford ex- 
cellent railway facilities. Columbus, 24 miles distant, fur- 
nishes a fine home market. 

No. 803. 
(A). 200 acres, 50 under plow; finely watered and tim- 
bered; comfortable 4-room house; barn, stables and out- 
houses; half mile from railway station, church, postoffice and 
school. This joins the following property and others, which 
together make a large and desirable tract for colonization. 
$1,600 ; third cash, balance 1 and 2 years. 

No. 804. 
(A). 400 acres, 120 fenced, 140 under plow; 110 acres in 
timber, oak, hickory and pine. Well watered ; 5 settlements, 
with houses of 2 to 6 rooms each ; barns, cribs and out houses 
on each settlement; railway station IJ miles, school, church 
and postoffice in 1 to 3 miles. This place, with others, con- 
stitutes a tract of 1,000 acres, very desirable for small colony. 
$4,000; half cash, balance 1 year. 

No. 805. 
(B). 202^ acres, 50 under plow, well watered and timbered ; 
cooafortable residence of 7 rooms, barn and out-buildings; 



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quantity of good fruit, including peaches, apples, plums, 
strawberries, grapes and a scuppernong arbor; lo miles Irom 
railway station, 1 from school, church and postothce. |1,115; 
half cash, balance easy. 

No. 806. 

(B). 211 acres, 20 fenced, 100 under plow, 40 in original 
woods; well watered; comfortable house of 7 rooms, barn, 
shed, 3 tenant houses — 1 of 4 and lof 2 and 1 of 1 room, all 
in good condition; some good fruit; 7 miles from railway 
station, 1^ from church and school. |5,000; half cash, bal- 
ance in 1 year. 

No. 807. 

(SOB). 70 acres, 25 under cultivation, with 3,000 grape 
vines and apple orchard, 100 pecan trees 4 ye-dra old; water 
good; distance from railway station one-fourth mile, from 
Court House one-fourth mile, from school one- 
fourth mile, from church one-fourth mile; roads 
goods; house of 7 rooms and cellar; barns and good out- 
houses; land especially suited to fruit and truck farming. 

$1,400; terms easy. 
No. 811. 

(A). 1,800 acres, 250 fenced, 1,200 under plow, 400 in oak 
and hickory, and 100 in old field pine; 3 creeks, 10 springs, 
12 w^ells; comfortable 6-room house, 3 rooms heated; 15 ten- 
ant houses, recently built, nearly all of 3 rooms each; large 
new gin-house with 20-horse powder engine and boiler and 
two 45x50 saw cotton gins, all comparatively new; about 800 
acres of tract have red chocolate soil, and are admirably 
adapted to peach culture; w^ould make fine stock farm; 3 
miles from railway station, 4 from Perry, the county seat. 
125,000; |7,000 cash, balance in 4 yearly payments.*^ This 
county is now the center of the peach region of Georgia. It 
has a pleasant, healthful climate, a soil and season exactly 
suited to the successful raising of peaches, grapes, pears, 
melons, and other fruits. It has excellent railway facilities, 
the Central Railroad traversing the northwestern section, 
and penetrating to the center at Perry by means of a branch 
line. Fort Valley, in the western part of the couutj^ is now 
the chief fruit shipping point of the State. It has railways 
leading in five directions and tapping almost the entire fruit 
section of Georgia. Profits on peaches have been as great 
as |550 net to the acre on a single crop, and fruit sold on the 
tree. Land in this section is, of course, very valuable. 

No. 812. 

(A). 377 acres, 20 fenced, 200 under plow\ 100 in oak and 
hickory. Well watered; dwelling of 4 rooms, heated; 2 barns, 
2 frame tenant houses. 8 miles from railway station, 9 from 
Perry. Well adapted to fruit or stock raising. $2,000; third 
cash, balance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. 813. 

(A). 157 acres, 1^ miles west of Fort Valley, on public 
road; mostly level and valuable land. The first peaches ever 



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•shipped from Houston county were from an orchard on this 
land. 100 acres in cultivation, balance in woods; fronts on 
railway; only tenant settlement, and but few fruit trees on 
it. ^ 13,000. 

No. 814. 

(A). 200 acres, adjoining the above; same kind of land, 
lies beautifully, and is very productive; has no orchard and 
only ordinary tenant house. Trice |20 an acre. 150 acres 
of it now in cultivation. 

No. 815. 

(A). 250 acres, within 1 mile of Fort Valley. 100 acres now 
in magnificent orchard of bearing peaches, rest in cultivation. 
Lies immediately on railway. Can sell entire tract for 
110,000; third cash, balance in 1 and 2 years, with interest at 
8 per centum; or in 50-acre tracts, each tract containing 25 
acres in peaches and 25 in cultivation, and each bounded on 
one side by main street leading from Fort Valley, and on 
the other by railway. Land is level and highly improved. 
Orchard was planted in select trees, under the supervision 
of one of the pioneer and most expert fruit growers of the 
section. Can sell these 50-acre tracts at |50 an acre; or can 
sell in 100-acre tracts at |45 an acre; the whole at |40 an 
acre. This is one of the best orchards in the State, and there 
is none superior to it. 

No. 810. 

(A). 900 acres, 5 miles from city, 1 mile from railway sta- 
tion ; half in cultivation ; level and well improved. 20 acres 
young orchard. |10,000; third cash, balance 1 and 2 years. 

No. 817. 

(A). 350 acres, within 1^ miles of Fort Valley; 250 acres 
under plow; good level land, adapted to fruit. |9,000. 

No. 818. 

(A). 150 acres, 3 miles from Fort Valle.y. A mill ; railway 
station near; land level and good; 100 acres cultivated. 

|2,250. 
No. 819. 

(A). l,518f acres. A fine property in the heart of the great 
fruit. belt. A valuable ginnery and mill site. A fine farm 
for fruit and general farming, combined with stock raising. 

$12,000. 
No. 820. 

(B). 500 acres, 50 fenced, 300 under plow, 150 in oak and 
hickory. Well watered. Comfortable 6-room house, barn, 
out-buildings. 3 miles from railway station, 10 from county 
seat. Within 1 mile of a peach orchard of the Ohio Com- 
pany. Very fine fruit and farm land. |4,500, 

No. 821. 

- ^ (B). 202^ acres, 20 fenced, 120 under plow. 80 in oak and 
Mckory. Finely watered. 2-room dwelling, barn, and 3 or 



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4 small buildings. One mile from railway station, 9 from 
county seat, 1 from school and postoffice. Good fruit land. 

$2,200. 
No. 823. 

(82 A). 1,215 acres, 400 under plow. Plenty of oak and 
hickory. 4-room residence, ceiled and painted, heated and 
comfortable. Good gin-house and engine shelter, 1 gear- 
house, 2 wagon shelters, 5 2-room tenant houses with stack 
chimneys, 1 tenant house with 4 rooms and 2 chimneys, 
chimneys, and 3 1-room houses with end chimneys. 5 wells, 
and three 1-room houses with end chimneys. Five wells, 
2 springs and 4 branches running in different directions. 
Houses in good condition. Fruit on place. 6 miles from 
railway station and 9 miles from Court House. This is in 
the fruit section. Especially suited to fruits and usual crops 
— corn, oats, cotton, grass. |7,224. 

No. 824. 

(294 A — corrected from 2d Series). 400 acres, 150 under 
plow, 50 in oak and pine. Well watered. Comfortable 10- 
room, 2-story house, 2 barns, smokehouse and tenant house. 
Plenty of nice fruit. Land fertile. This place is in the 
choicest fruit section of Georgia, and is finely adapted to 
fruit raising or to general farming or stock. Within quarter 
mile of railway station and Court House. 49 acres of it are 
within corporate limits of Perry, the county seat, where are 
fine public schools, churches, etc. Residence is in the town. 
Property could be divided into small farms and lots. $6,670. 

No. 903. 

(A). 140 acres, 50 to 60 under plow, half mile from Buena 
Vista, well watered and timbered. 25 acres are in fine oak. 
Plain house of four rooms with barn. |3,000; half cash, 
balance on terms to suit. Marion county is in Western Cen- 
tral Georgia, near Columbus. Its climate is healthful and 
comfortable. The soil is adapted to general farming, fruit 
raising, stock and vegetables. Columbus being only 35 
miles from the county seat, furnishes a good home market. 
Buena Vista, the county seat, is on the Central Railroad, 
and is a flourishing and pleasant place. The county is well 
timbered and watered and is an excellent farming section. 

No. 904. 

<^A). 150 acres, all fenced, 125 under plow; well watered 
and timbered. Small residence, with barn and cotton 
houses. Half mile from Buena Vista. $15 an acre. 

No. 905. 

(A). 40 acres, all fenced and under plow; watered by a well 
and 2 or 3 springs and 2 branches. Plain 3-room house and 
barn. Quarter mile from Buena Vista. |1,200. 

No. 906. 

(A). 28 acres, all fenced and under plow, 3 good st>"''^-'s. 
No buildings. 4,000 to 4,500 Elberta peach trees, which are 
come into bearing this year. A good building site on this 



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property facing 3rd avenue, which is the southern boundary. 
Eighth of a mile from Buena Vista. |6,000. 

No. 907. 
(A). 1.30 acres, all fenced, and 75 under plow; well wa- 
tered and timbered; 25 acres in oak and hickory and 30 in 
pine. No improvements. 2^ miles from Buena Vista but 
one-fourth mile from railway station. $1,250. 

No. 908. 
(A), 93 acres, all cultivated, well watered by 3 good 
springs and 3 branches. 1^ miles from Buena Vista. Small 
tenant house of 2 rooms, and barn. |S00 ; half cash, balance 
to suit purchaser. 

No. 909. 
(A). 305 acres, 100 under plow, 75 in oak, hickory and pine, 
well watered. 2 good houses, 4 rooms in one and 2 in the 
other; barn and cotton house; good location for cotton fac- 
tory. Within sight of Buena Vista. Some fruit. 2 miles 
from the county seat. |1,500, which can be paid on easy 
terms. 

No. 110. 
(A). A lot 25x105 feet in Buena Vista, 3 blocks from the 
railway station, and one block from the Court House. Oc- 
cupied now by a small store-house. Desirable place for hard- 
ware or furniture store. |650; on easy terms. 

No. 911. 
(100 R). 405 acres in one body, 4 miles from the town of 
Buena Vista, all under rail fence, in good condition; 275 
acres of upland, 125 of first bottom, 350 in cultivation, 62 
of pasture, 100 of fine growth of oak and hickory. 4-room 
frame dwelling, in good repair; 3 tenant houses and 1 gin- 
house; gin-house not now in use. This is a splendid place, 
being moderately level and well watered, situated in good 
community, convenient to schools and churches, railway 
and market. $2,500. 

No. 912. 
(101 R). 707^ acres, 3 miles south of Buena Vista, the 
county seat; about 400 acres cleared for cultivation, balance 
in timber; convenient to market, schools and churches. Im- 
provements consists of 6-room cottage and a 2-room tenant 
house, with barns and stables. |2,800. 

No. 913. 
(318 B— corrected from 2d Series). A magnificent planta- 
tion of 1,000 acres; finely watered by 5 or 6 branches run- 
ning through the property and by a large creek. Situated 
26 miles from Columbus, and 8 from Buena Vista, the county 
seat of Marion. Postoffice and school within 1 mile, and the 
station of Glenalta, on the Savannah & Western Railway, 
is only 1 mile distant. Comfortable house of 4 rooms, we'll 
finished and heated; besides IG tenant houses, and a large 
2-story barn, carriage house, etc. Property under good 
fence. Improvements cost $10,000. 
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No. 932. 

(A). 135 acres, 40 in pine. Mulatto and gray soil. Very 
productive. 1 mile from church and school and 2 from post- 
office. |1,080; 1540 cash, balance 1 year. Monroe county 
is in Central Georgia, its elevation is 500 to 800 feet above 
the sea, the land is very productive and lies well for farming. 
Monroe county is situated in Northern Central Georgia, be- 
tween Atlanta and Macon. Its county seat, Forsyth, is one 
of the most progressive little cities in the State, with a pop- 
ulation of about 2,000. It is on the Central Railroad, 76 miles 
from Atlanta and 27 from Macon. It is healthful, as is the 
entire county, and is a delightful place for a home. The 
farm lands of Monroe are well adapted to general crops, to 
grain, grasses, clover, fruit and vegetables. The county lies 
in the best grape section of the State, and is splendidly 
suited to the culture of peaches, pears and all the small 
fruits. Its superior railway facilities, being traversed by 
the Central Railroad, w^hich furnishes rapid and abundant 
transportation, make it especially adapted to dairying and 
market gardening. All products of farm, orchard, vineyard 
and dairy find ready market in Macon and Atlanta. 

No. 933. 

(A). 265 acres, 10 fenced, 120 under plow, 10 original oak 
and hickory. Watered by 2 wells, several springs, and 
branches, and 1 creek. Soil good. Quantity of fruit — 200 
apples, 12 pears, 3 plums, 400 peaches. Comfortable resi- 
dence of 6 rooms, all heated ; barn, cribs, stables, wagon and 
buggy shelters, 2 tenant houses of 2 rooms each. Splendid 
natural pasture summer and winter. 2 miles from railway 
station, 6^ from Forsyth. |2,385; half cash, balance 1 year. 

■' - >■".■: ^ No. 934. 

(A). 202| acres, 20 fenced, 70 under plow, 70 in second 
growth pine and 15 in original pine forest. 2 wells, 2 small 
branches. 2 dwellings, 1 of 2 rooms, and 1 of 4 rooms, heated. 
Stables, barn, etc. Soil productive. 3 miles from railway 
station, 4* from county seat — Forsyth. |1,350; half cash, 
balance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. 935. 

(A). 301^ acres, 135 under plow, 10 in oak and 50 in pine. 
Well watered by springs and branches. Soil productive. 
2-story house, and 3 tenant houses, with stables, etc. 3 miles 
from Forsyth. |2,000 ; third cash, balance 1, 2 and 3 years. 

No. 936. 

(A). 600 acres, nearly all fenced, 100 under plow, the rest 
in Bermuda grass and old field pine, with 50 acres in oak and 
hickory. Magnificent pasturage. Comfortable 2-story house 
of 6 rooms, 4 heated; 1 barn, with stables and cribs. 3 log 
cabins for tenants. Soil very productive. 4 miles from rail- 
way station and 8 from Forsyth. |5,000. 



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No. 937. 
(A). 330 acres, 150 under plow, 50 in oak and hickory, 100 
in pine. Watered by springs and branches. 2-story resi- 
dence of 7 rooms, 4 heated ; 1 barn, with crib, buggy house, 
smolve-house, and several smaller houses, 4 tenant houses, 
each with barns and shelters. A well-equipped place. 6 
miles from Forsyth. |3,000 ; third cash, balance 1, 2 and 3 
years. 

No. 938. 

(A). 161 acres, 75 under plow, rest in oak and pine. Wa- 
tered by springs, branches and Towaliga River. Residence 
of 2 rooms, with stable, cribs and shelters. 5 miles from 
railway, 6^ from Forsyth. |l,27o.; third cash, balance 1, 2 
and 3 years. 

No. 939. 

(A). 250 acres, 100 under plow, rest in oak and pine. Wa- 
tered by wells and springs and Towaliga River, which flows 
through the property. Good soil. 2-room residence. 5 miles 
from railway and 6^ from Forsyth. |2,200; third cash, bal- 
ance 1, 2 and 3 years. 

No. 940. 
(A). 2021 acres, 100 under plow, 15 in hickory and 15 in 
oak. 2 cre^eks, 1 well. Small cabin. 1^ miles from railway 
station, 6 from Forsyth. $3-00 an acre. 

No. 941. 
(A). 992 acres, 400 under plow, 100 in oak and hickory, 
300 in pine. 5 wells, several springs and creek. Comforta- 
ble 6-room house, 4 rooms heated; 2 barns, 2 corn-cribs, to- 
gether with frame house of 4 rooms, another of 2 rooms and 
1 of 1 room; carriage house, 2 wagon shelters and gear 
rooms. On another part of same property is a 4-room- resi- 
dence recently built with necessary out-houses; and on still 
another part of the same property a 4-room residence, 2 
barns, corn sheds and 4 tenant houses. This is a very desira- 
ble place ; about 100 acres in Bermuda grass, furnishing mag- 
nificent pasturage. $11,000; half cash, balance in 1 and 2 
years. 

No. 942. 
(A). 140 acres, 85 under plow, balance in oak, hickory and 
pine. Springs and streams. No improvements. 1^ miles 
from Barnesville, and 2 miles from Goggins' Station on 
Central Railroad. |15.00 an acre; |1,200 cash, balance in 
1 and 2 vears. 

No. 943. 
(A). 100 acres, 70 under plow, 15 in original hard wood, 
5 in pine. 2 wells, spring and branch. 3-room residence, 
all heated ; 1 barn, 2 tenant houses, wagon shelter, 2 storage 
houses. Place lies immediately on the Central Railroad, 1^ 
miles from Forsyth. |2,750 ; half cash, balance 1 year. 

No. 944. 
(A). 200 acres, 100 under plow, 25 in oak and hickory, and 
50 to 75 in pine. Wells, springs, streams. 3-room residence. 



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heated; barn, frame house of 3 rooms, cribs, cotton house, 
etc. Some fruit. 6^ miles from Forsyth. |10 an acre; third 
cash, balance 1, 2 and 3 years. 

No. 945. 

(A). 715 acres, 100 fenced, 350 under plow, 200 in oak, pine 
and hickory. Wells, creeks, springs and branches. Fine 
orchard of good fruit, 250 peach trees and grape vineyard 
of an acre and a half, 100 acres of fine pasture, comfortable 
6-room house; 4 or 5 barns, about a dozen tenant houses, 1 
gin-house with screw, cane mill and small cribs. A very de- 
sirable place. 3 miles from railway station. Half mile from 
church, postoffice and school. |7,865. 

No. 946. 

(A). 1^00 acres, 50 fenced, 300 in hardwood, 4 wells, sev- 
eral springs and small streams. 5-room house, well built 
and heated; 2 barns, 8 tenant houses, cribs and stables. 2 
miles from railway station, 8 from Forsyth. 400 peach trees, 
some apples and plums. |10 an acre; $5,000 cash, balance in 

I and 2 years at 8 per cent. 

No. 947. 

(A). 1,030 acres, 75 fenced, 500 under plow, 175 in oak and 
hickory, 200 in pine and 150 in pasture. Watered by several 
streams and springs. Some fruit on place. Comfortable 
house of 5 rooms, 3 heated; 1 barn, 2room frame house and 4 
1-room houses; new gin-house and fixtures in good condi- 
tion. Well equipped place. School and church within 1 
mile; postoffice in center of lot; railway station 1^ miles, 
county seat 10 miles. |11 an acre; half cash, balance 1 year. 

No. 948. 

(A). 842^ acres, 10 fenced, 250 under plow, 12 in oak and 
hickory, 400 in pine. Watered by never-failing streams. 
Quantity of apples, peaches, cherries, plums, and berries. 
Comfortable 6-room house, 4 heated ; 12 tenant houses. Soil 
excellent and location good. 2 miles from railway station, 

II from county seat. $10 an acre. 

No. 949. 

(A). 760 acres, 160 under plow, 80 in oak and hickory. A 
number of fine wells, springs and branches. Excellent pas- 
turage. Small stables and 5 tenant houses. 3^ miles from 
railway, 14 from county seat, 3 from church, school and post- 
office. This place can be bought, together with the next 2 
following places, forming together 3,290 acres; well adapted 
to the purpose of colony. Price of this lot $8 an acre. 

No. 950. 

(A). 1,500 acres, 300 fenced, 300 under plow, 100 in orig- 
inal hardwoods, 200 in pine. Finely watered by wells, springs 
(4 of them being mineral springs), 2 creeks, and 7 branches. 
Soil excellent. Large comfortable house of 8 rooms, 7 
heated; 1 barn, 2 stables, 4 out-houses, wagon shelter, and 
12 tenant houses. Fine orchard of apples and peaches. One- 
eighth mile from railway station, 3 from church, school and 



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postoffice, 14 from county seat. $12,000; half cash, balance 
in 1 year. This place would make a magnificent stock or 
dairy farm, as there are 200 acres of fine bottom. 

No. 951. 

(A). 1,030 acres, 20 fenced and in pasture, 300 under plow ; 
100 in oak and hickory and 400 in pine. Soil good. Com- 
fortable 7-room house, 4 heated ; 2 log cribs, carriage houses, 
wagon shelters, 8 nice double tenant houses. Some good 
fruit. Watered by five wells, springs and streams. 1^ miles 
from railway station, 12 from county seat. |8 an acre. This 
place, with the two preceding places, form a magnificent 
tract of 3,290 acres, admirably adapted for colonization. 

No. 952. 

(A). 2GG acres, 25 fenced, 100 under plow, 40 in original 
hardwood, 125 in pine. Well watered by creeks and 
branches. 2 tenant houses of 1 and 2 rooms. 2 stables, cribs, 
wagon shelters, etc. 3 miles from railway station, 14 from 
Forsyth. 2 miles from church, school and postoffice . $1,650. 

No. 953. 

(A). 11 acres, 7 under plow, well watered. Soil good. 
Quantity of fine fruit — 300 apples, 12 pears, 600 peaches, half 
acre of small fruits. House of 3 rooms, heated. 1 barn,, 
wagon and buggy shed, store-room and 2-room house for 
yards, excellent mill site, with corn mill and ginnery and 
saw- mill. Half mile from Central Railroad, 3 from 
station, 8 from Forsyth, half mile from church, 1 from 
school. $3,500; half cash, balance 1 year. 

No. 954. 

(A). 215 acres, 60 under plow, 10 fenced, 60 in pine forest, 
some oak and hickory. Well watered; soil excellent. Resi- 
dence of 4 rooms, 3 heated; shelters, stables, 2 barns. 2 
miles from Forsyth. $15 an acre ; half cash, balance 1 year. 

No. 955. 

(A). 100 acres, 80 under plow, 15 acres in pine, oak and 
hickory ; well watered. Residence of 3 rooms ; barn, stables, 
2 cabins. 2i; miles from Forsyth. 1,100 peach trees, making 
about 11 acres in this fruit. $11 an acre ; third cash, balance 
to suit. 

No. 956. 

(A). 335 acres, 200 fenced, and 200 under plow, 75 in oak 
and pine. Well watered, and has fine meadow for. stock, 200 
peach trees, 1^ acres in vineyard. 50 solid in Bermuda and 
clover, making magnificent pasture. 1:^ miles from Forsyth. 

$18 an acre. 
No. 957. 

(A). 1,200 acres, 600 under fence, 450 under plow, 250 
acres in original hardwood and 250 in pine. Watered by 
wells, springs and branches. 300 apple trees, 50 pears, and 
3,500 peaches. 3,000 trees will bear their first crop this year. 
Gin on the creek in good condition. Comfortable 8-room 
house, 5 rooms heated; 2 barns, cribs and 7 tenant houses. 



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100 acres in fine pasture, and 100 acres of splendid bottom 
lauds which will produce GO bushels of corn to the acre. 
This is a very valuable place. 2 miles from Forsyth. 

|12 an acre. 

No. 9.58. 

(A). 240 acres, 35 fenced, 80 under plow, 50 in hickory, 

oak and pine; well watered. Kesidence 3 rooms, heated. 1 

barn, cribs, cotton house, and potato house. 50 acres in fine 

pasture. Some fruit. 3 miles from Forsyth. |12 an acre. 

No. 050. 

(A). 150 acres, GO under plow, 40 in pine and oak. Well 

watered. 2 cabins 1 room each, 100 apple trees. 2-| miles 

from Forsyth. A good place, and admits of being made an 

admirable farm, but has been neglected. |9 an acre. 

No. 9G0. 
(B). 200 acres, 100 under plow, 100 in oak and pine. Wa- 
tered by a fine well, 1 creek, 3 branches and 4 springs. Com- 
fortable residence of 1^ stories of 7 rooms and basement; 
well heated. 2 barns, cribs, stables, 4 good 1-room tenant 
houses. This is a poultry farm, admirably equipped. Owner 
will sell at reasonable price stock of fancy poultry, hogs, 
etc., with the reputation of the farm. There is a quantity of 
good fruit— 400 apple trees, 100 pears, 100 plums, 1,500 
peaches, 10 cherries, large quantity of grapes, strawberries, 
mulberries, pecans, English walnuts, etc., all of excellent 
variety. Some of the fruit trees are in bearing, and all are 
in fine condition. This is a very valuable place, situated a 
half mile irorS the railway station of Bolingbroke, and 12 
miles from Forsyth; 2 miles from church and school and 1 
mile of postoffice. |4,000 for farm alone; |5,000 for farm, 
stock, poultry and everything. 

No. 9G1. 
(A). G80 acres in a body, about 3 miles from Dames Ferry, 
on the Ocmulgee Eiver. Fine bottoms and good uplands. A 
fine stock farm. Buildings in fair condition. |4,500. 

No. 962. 
(A). 640 acres, 6 miles from railw^ay station. A very fine 
farm ; good uplands and rich bottoms. Good 6-room dwell- 
ing and good out-houses. One of the best farms in this sec- 

*^o^- 15,000. 

No. 963. 
(B). A farm just outside the town limits of Forsyth, con- 
taining 40 acres, within 300 yards of the railway station, 
and fronting on the main street about 400 yards. The house 
is a square, 2-story, old-fashioned frame' building, with 8 
rooms, besides 2 that could be used as kitchens to each half 
of the house. The property is fenced in with wire fencing 
into various sized lots. A good stream runs through one end 
of It, and there is a fine well of pure water. An orchard of 
800 peach trees and a vineyard of 300 grape vines about 2 
years old. Being so near Macon and Atlanta, where everv- 



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thing that is raised upon the place can be sold, it would be 
admirably adapted to a dairy or truck farm. It is within 
300 yards"^ of the college. Price |2,500, upon following terms : 
Two mortgages now upon the place would have to be as- 
sumed, one for $600 that has about 3 years to run, at 8 per 
cent., and one of 1450 which can be paid off at any time, and 
can probably be continued if desired, at 8 per cent. The 
payments will be made to suit the purchaser, except that 
|650 would have to be paid cash, and balance with 7 per 
cent, interest. Possession can be given January 1st. 

No. 964. 

(B). 1,700 to 5,000 acres, 1,000 in cultivation, balance in 
good woodland. 1,700 acres controlled, but could get 5,000 
if needed. Good water power on Tobesofkee Creek. 3 miles 
from Bolingbroke, on the Central Railroad. 8 or 10 tenant 
houses. Would make very desirable place for colony. Big 
and Little Tobesofkee Creeks and a spring branch water 
the tract. The soil is good and well adapted to orrain, grasses 
and fruits. Place only 12 miles from Macon, on a good road. 
$10 an acre; terms to suit purchaser. 

No. 994. 

(104 B). 600 to 800 acres of excellent land, one of the best 
stock farms in Middle Georgia; near Barnesville, accessible 
to railway and markets. Land suitable also for fruit and 
vegetables. Barnesville is quite a center of education, there 
being a number of excellent schools. Churches, and post- 
office and railway station near. Fuller description, price and 
terms on application. 

No. 1019. 

(A). 557 acres in a body, 2 miles from Coleman Station. 
50 .acres bottom, balance upland. Lands of good quality and 
lie well. Improvements in fair condition. Place well wa- 
tered and timbered. Good neighborhood. $2,500. 

No. 1020. 

(A). 397 acres in a body about 13 miles north of Cuthbert. 
All upland, lies well and in good state of cultivation. Im- 
provements fair. Price, $1,200. 

No. 1021. 

(107 B). lO-acre lot in city of Cuthbert. Fine building lot. 
Land in high state of cultivation, having been carefully im- 
proved for 5 years; 105 yards front on Main street, running 
350 yards back, with street on south side. Splendid garden 
or vegetable farm; just on edge of city limits, and is a fine 
location for a home. $2,000, or will exchange for property 
in Atlanta. Cuthbert is a delightful city, with all advant- 
ages of schools, churches, railways, etc. 

No. 1022. 

(108 B). Cotton mill for sale or lease, or will sell half in- 
terest. Property is located at Cuthbert, on Central Railroad, 
between Dawson and Georgetown. Cost originally $65,000. 
Capacity about 4,000 pounds yarn per annum. Could be 



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started up in a few days, as everything is in running order. 
Mill was closed in January. Property consists of mill and 
66 acres of land. Factory building is 50x80 feet, with wmg 
35x25 feet; 2 stories, engine room and boiler shed, ware- 
house, office, and 11 tenement buildings for operatives. Tax 
exemption for 10 years if mill is started. |15,000. 

No. 1040. 

(B). 1,500 acres, 350 fenced, 150 under plow, well tim- 
bered and watered by the Ogeechee River, well and branches. 
Residence of 4 rooms, besides dining-room and kitchen ; barn, 
5 tenant houses. A dam and foundation for water mill; 2 
large gin-houses— one of them at the station— a large store- 
house at station, and a small dwelling house at same place. 
Good stand for mercantile business. The property is right 
at the station of Cameron, on the Central Railroad, and rail- 
way runs through it for 1^ miles. Quantity of fruit— apples, 
pears, plums, 65 peaches, 3 pecans, 10 walnuts. Soil very 
fertile. $7,500; |4,000 cash, balance in 1 year. 

No. 1044. 

(A). 200 acres, 130 under plow, 4 acres of fine pasture, 
63 of good timber ; well watered. 2 houses of 3 rooms each, 
2 barns, stables. This is a fruit farm, with 44 acres in 
peaches, all Elbertas except 10 acres; 14^ acres in apples, 
5 in plums. All fruits are of the very best varieties. 95 
acres of fruit now in bearing. The houses are ordinary. 
Beautiful building spot overlooking Griffin, and property 
adjoins the State military encampment grounds. 1 mile 
from Griffin. |10,000; half cash, balance in 1 and 2 years. 
Spalding is one of the best counties in the State. The soil 
and climate are splendidly adapted to general farming and 
especiallv to fruits of all kinds. Graces and all small fruits 
do exceedingly well. The climate is delightful and salu- 
brious. The railway facilities are very superior; the Cen- 
tral, and a branch of the Central, pass through the county, 
affording unsurpassed transportation to and from every part 
of the county. Griffin, the county seat, is a delightful and 
progressive city, with good society and fine educational ad- 
vantages. It is 43 miles from Atlanta and 60 from Macon. 
These cities give excellent home markets for the product of 
farm, orchard, vineyard and dairy. 

No. 1045. 
(A). 512 acres, 75 fenced, 300 under plow, 30 in pine, 50 in 
original forest of oak, hickory and other hardwoods. Com- 
fortable 6-room house, 3 barns, cribs, stables, etc. Land lies 
along public road for 1 mile; can be cut up into small farms. 
15 acres in peaches, 4 in apples, 2 in plums. An excellent 
fruit farm. 1^ miles from Griffin. |10,000; third cash, bal- 
ance in 1 and 2 years. 

No. 1046. 
(A). 100 acres, 85 under plow, 3-room house, barn, etc. 
Some fruit. Land well adapted to fruit and vegetables. Half 



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mile from railway station, 4^ from Griffin. |1,5U0; third 
cash, balance 1 and 2 years. 

No. 1051. 
(A). 20,000 acres in one body. A magnificent tract of land, 
in good state of cultivation; finely timbered and watered. 
Two railroad stations on property. Gins, engines and ma- 
chinery- all on the place. Storehouses, postoffice, and good 
buildings. A splendid body for subdivision or for coloniza- 
tion. Very cheap. Terms on application. 

No. 1053. 
(A). 607^ acres, lands of fair quality and well supplied 
with timber and water. Improvements fair. $1,000. 

No. 1054. 
(A). 554^ acres, upland and bottom. Well supplied with 
timber and water and in a fair state of cultivation. Improve- 
ments fair. $1,500. 

No. 1056. 
(A). 440 acres, 100 under plow, 100 fenced, abundance of 
pine and oak. Springs, wells and streams. Soil sand}', clay 
sub-soil, very productive. Plain 4-room house, barn and 
stables. Land in high state of cultivation, and is finely 
adapted to general farming, fruit and stock raising. 3 miles 
from railway and county seat, Butler, and 1^ from church 
and school. This county is in splendid farming and fruit 
section, and all lands given herein are well adapted to 
peaches, pears, melons, grapes and berries. Price of this 
place |4 an acre. 

No. 1057. 
(A), 190 acres, in pine and oak timber. Good farming 
land. Three-quarters of mile from railway and 1 from But- 
ler. Very desirable place. Price |4 an acre. 

No. 1058. 
(A). 607^ acres, 200 under plow^ and fence, rest in oak and 
pine. Watered by wells, springs and streams. 4-room dwell- 
ing, barn, cribs and stable. Soil good; in high state of cul- 
tivation. 5 miles from railway and 6 from Butler; 1^ from 
church and school. Price |5 an acre. 

No. 1059. 
(A). 455 acres, 20 under plow and fenced. Improvements 
poor. Abundance of oak and pine timber. Good farm land, 
fertile. Quarter mile of railway station and 3 from Butler. 

Price |4 an acre. 
No. 1060. 
(A). 202| acres, in pine and oak timber. Good farm land; 
2^ miles from railway station and from Butler. 

Price 12.50 an acre. 

No. 1061. 

(A). 405 acres, 60 under plow and fenced; rest in oak and 

pine. Wells and springs; soil good; small dwelling of 2 

rooms, stables and cribs. 6 miles from Butler, 2^ from 

church and school. Price $2.25 an acre. 



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No. 10G2. 
(A) '^ 783 acres, 200 or 300 under plow and fenced, rest 
in pines' and oalvS. Wells, springs and streams; soil good; 
small plain dwelling, stables and cribs; 2 miles from Butler. 

Price |2 an acre. 

No. 1063. 

( \) 405 acres, in original timber, mostly pine. Good land, 

watered bv streams. Would make a good farm for fruit or 

stock; G miles from railway station and 7 from Butler; ^^ 

from clinrch, school and postofflce. Price |1.25 an acre. 

No. 1064.' 
(A) 3034 acres, 50 under plow and fenced; abundance of 
oak timber; soil good; pure water; U miles from railway 
station and 7 from Butler; 1^ from church, school and post- 
office ; small houses and barns. Price |3.25 an acre. 

No. 1065. 
(\) "^62 1 acres of original pine and oak forest; soil ex- 
cellent; would make desirable farm; U miles from railway 
and 3Vfrom Butler. Price |2.25 an acre. 

No. 1066. 
(A) 405 acres in original oak and pine. Good farming 
land • watered by well, springs and streams. 3 miles from 
railway station and 5 from Butler. Price |4 an acre. 

No. 1067. 
(A) 1 570 acres, 500 under plow and fenced, rest in fine 
forest of pine, oak, hickory and poplar. W^ells, springs and 
streams. Improvements consist of tenant houses, barns and 
cribs. Soil good. 6 miles from railway station and from 
Butler, 2 from church, school and postofflce. 

Price |8 an acre. 

No. 1068. 

(A) 1 315 acres, 50 to 60 under plow and fenced, rest in 

pine, oak, and hickory forest. Good land. Well watered. 

Plain 2-room dwelling, barn and stables. 3 to 4 miles from 

Butler Price $2.50 an acre. 

No. 1069. 

(A). 506 acres, 100 under plow and fenced, rest in oak and 

pine forests. Wells and streams. Soil good. Plain 2-room 

house, cribs and stalls. Very desirable farm. 1^ miles from 

railway station, 2i from Butler, 2 from church and school. 

'' Price 12.50 an acre. 

No. 1070. 

(A). 202^ acres, 100 under plow and fenced, rest in oak 

and pine. Watered by wells and streams. Soil good. 

4-room dwelling, stables and cribs. 6 miles from Butler and 

1 from school and church. Price |5 an acre. 

No. 1071. 
(A). 607^ acres, 200 cultivated and fenced, rest in pine and 
oak. Soil good. Wells and streams. 4-room house, stables 
and cribs. 1 mile from railway and 2^ from Butler. 

Price 13.50 an acre. 



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No. 1072. 
(A). 505 acres, 200 under plow and fenced; rest in oak and 
pine. Soil good ; well watered. G miles from Butler, 2 from 
church and school. 4-room dwelling, stables and cribs. 

Price $3.50 an acre. 

No. 1073. 

(A). 505 acres, 200 under plow and fenced; rest in oak and 

pine. Soil good; well watered by streams and springs. 

4-room dwelling, barns, stables and cribs. 6 miles from 

Butler and 2 from school and church. 

Price |8.50 an acre. 
No. 1074. 
(A). 1,207 acres, 200 under plow and fenced, rest in pine 
and oak. Well watered by springs and streams. Soil pro- 
ductive, sandy loam. Plain dwelling, 2 rooms; stables and 
cribs. 6 miles from railway station, 7 from Butler, 1^ from 
school and church. Price |3 an acre. 

No. 1075. 

(A). 303^ acres, 80 under plow and fenced, rest in pine 

and oak. Good soil; pure water; land lies well. 3-room 

dwelling, with barn and cribs. 6 miles from railway station, 

7 from Butler, 2 from church and school. Price |4.25 an acre. 

No. 1076. 
(A). 1,012 acres in original pine and oak forest. Good 
farming land, with pure water and productive soil. Eighth 
of mile from railway station, and 2 from Butler. 

Price |3 an acre. 

No. 1077. 

(A). 405 acres, 75 under plow and fenced, rest in oak and 

pine. Soil good; well watered by wells and streams. Plain 

2-room house, cribs and stables. 4 miles from Butler, 1^ 

from school and church. Price |2.50 an acre. 

No. 1078. 
(A). 4,688 acres, about 900 under plow and fence, rest in 
forest of oak and pine. Wells, springs and streams. Soil 
excellent. A number of small houses, from 1 to 6 rooms 
each, with barns, stables, etc. Can be divided into a number 
of small farms. Very desirable place. 1 mile from railway 
station and 2 from Butler, 1 from church and school. Would 
make fine fruit or stock farm and would suit a small colony. 

Price 13.25 an acre. 

No. 1079. 

(A). 202^ acres, 50 under plow and fence, rest in oak and 

pine. Well watered. Soil good. Small house, cribs and 

stables. 2 miles from railway station, 6 from Butler, 2^ from 

school and church. Price $3 an acre. 

No. 1080. 
(A). 101^ acres, 18 under plow and fence, rest in oak and 
pine. Pure water, good soil. Small house and stable. 1^ 
miles from railway station and 3 from Butler 

Price $3 an acre. 



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No. 1081. 

(A). 506^ acres, 200 under plow and fence, rest in pine and 

oak. Well and streams. Soil productive. 3-room house, 

cribs and stables. 2^ miles from railway station at Butler, 

and 2 from school and church. Price $2.50 an acre. 

No. 1082. 

(A). 202^ acres in original forest of pine and oak. Soil 
good, and land lies well. 2 miles from Butler, 1^ from school 
and church. Price |4 an acre. 

No. 1083. 

(A). 202^ acres, 30 under plow and fence, rest in pine and 
oak. Well of good water; soil good and productive. Small 
2-room house, 1 stable. 6 miles from railway station and 8 
from Butler, 2 from school and church. Price |1.50 an acre. 

No. 1084. 

(A). 1,822^ acres, 400 under plow, 500 under fence, rest in 
good timber. Soil sandy loam, with substratum of clay, and 
very productive. Wells, springs and streams. One 4-room 
frame house, and one 6-room house; 11 tenant houses; 2 
barns. This is a very fine piece of property, and has a saw- 
mill in good condition, a merchant mill, plenty of timber, 
and the best water power in the county. Water power suf- 
ficient to run a large cotton factory ; and there is an abund- 
ance of cotton raised in immediate neighborhood. 7 miles 
from railway station at Butler, 2 from school and church. 
Would make a magnificent fruit or stock farm. Price |10 
an acre; payment may be made as follows: $10,000 stock in 
a factory; |5,000 cash; balance in 1 to 5 years, with interest. 

No. 1085. 

(B). 1,269 acres, 40 fenced, 75 under plow, rest well tim- 
bered in oak, poplar, hickory and yellow pine. Two wells, 
10 springs, 1 creek and 6 branches. Comfortable dwelling 
of 7 rooms, 6 heated; 2 barns, and 10 tenant houses. 
Grist-mill, gin-house and store-house and blacksmith shop. 
Two magnificent water powers on property. Soil is very fer- 
tile, and the place would make a fine stock, fruit or general 
farm. S^ miles from Butler, 2 from school and church, and 
postoffice on place. Price |15,000; |10,000 cash, balance in 
equal yearly payments, with interest. 

No. 1086. 
(A). 202^ acres, 3 miles east of Butler. A good upland 
farm. |800. 

No. 1087. 

(A). 75 acres adjoining the corporate limits of Butler. A 
good residence farm with 6-room frame dwelling. |1,500. 

No. 1088. 

(A). 202^ acres about 9 miles south of Butler. A good up- 
land farm, with fair improvements. $700. 



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No. 1089. 

(A). 708f acres about 2 miles south of Butler. A good up- 
land farm, well adapted to fruit and general farming, well 
watered and timbered. Good mill site and water power. 

|4,500. 
No.. 1124. 

(A). 775 acres, 100 fenced, 240 under plow, well watered 
and timbered. Residence of 8 rooms; 7 tenant bouses of 2 
rooms each, 7 barns. 5 miles from Thomaston, 1^ from 
school. |5,000; third cash, balance in 5 annual payments. 
This county is in Western Central Georgia, on the east bank 
of the Flint River. It is finely watered and timbered, with 
good soil, well adapted to general farming, fruit and stock 
raising. The climate is pleasant and wholesome. The Ma- 
con & Birmingham Railroad, the Central Railroad and the 
Atlanta & Florida pass through the county, affording am- 
ple and superior transportation facilities. The Georgia Mid- 
land & Gulf touches the county in the northwestern corner. 
Thomaston, the county seat, is on 2 railways, and is 56 miles 
from Macon. It is a thriving and pleasant place and a good 
business center. 

No. 1125. 

(A). 10 acres, 3 under plow, well watered. Mill-house and 
gin; 1 small dwelling and 1 barn. Gin and mill on same 
stream, 400 yards apart; fine fall of water; all machinery in 
good condition. The mill is a 3-story merchant mill, 1 wheat 
mill and 1 corn; rock dam. This is a valuable property, 3 
miles from Thomaston. |3,850. 

No. 1126. 

(A). A fine mill for wheat and corn, together with gin- 
house, 5 dwelling houses, 3 of 2 rooms and the other of 5, with 
fine water power, and about 40 acres of land. Mill with 3 
stories with 344 horse-power, stone cement dam. This prop- 
erty is known as Daniel's Mill, and 5 miles southwest of 
Thomaston, on Big Potato Creek. 150 peach trees on the 
property. Quarter mile from church and school, 2 miles 
from postoflQce. The mill-pond has an average of 10 feet depth 
at lowest water. Magnificent fishing pond, the fish being 
trapped in large quantities, such as trout, channel cat. etc. 
$2,250; half cash, balance 1 year. 

No. 1127. 

(A). 300 acres, 100 fenced, 60 under plow ; well watered and 
timbered. Plain house of 4 rooms, 1 barn and cotton house. 
Half mile from Thomaston. Orchard of plums, 100 peach 
trees. |3,300; |1,500 cash, balance 1 year. 

No. 1128. 
(A). 260 acres, 180 under plow, finely timbered, and wa- 
tered by springs and Flint River. House of 4 rooms, 1 barn, 
3-room tenant house. Waterfall that will develop 5,000 horse 
power on the river, controlled by the property. 3 miles from 
railway station, 14 from Thomaston and 1 from school. Or- 



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chard of plums, 300 peach trees, some apples and pears. 
|2,080; |800 cash, balance in 4 annual payments. 

No. 1138. 
(A). 4,050 acres, 1,400 of original forest, from which 10,- 
000,000 feet of pine timber can be cut; there is also a fine lot 
of hardwood timber. A dam could be thrown across the 
Little Ogeechee River and a 50-foot head of water obtained, 
which would give any amount of power. It would make a 
splendid site for cotton or other factory. 2 schools and 2 
churches on property, 3| miles from postoflfice and railway 
station. Excellent farming land. This county is in the 
section described under Hancock and Jefferson, It is a 
splendid farming and fruit raising county. The lands are 
well watered; there is an abundance of timber, and the soil 
is productive. The climate is wholesome and pleasant. The 
Central Railroad of Georgia furnishes abundant and excel- 
lent transportation facilities. Sandersville is the county 
seat. It is a pleasant and prosperous place. Tennille, on 3 
railways, is a rapidly growing town. 

No, 1139, 
(B). 1,500 acres, 1,400 fenced, 1,000 under plow, well wa- 
tered and timbered. Large comfortable house of 9 rooms; 
5 tenant houses of 4 and 5 rooms each, and 10 with 2 and 3 
rooms. Can be divided into small holdings. Some good 
fruit, 1 mile from railway station of Sun Hill, 5 from San- 
dersville and Tennille. Very healthful and valuable place. 
$22,500; third cash, balance in easy payments. 

No. 1140, 
(140 B). 2,300 acres, 160 in good state of cultivation, 600 
in pine timber, and 1,200 to 1,300 in oak, hickory, etc., all 
of which is very valuable. Comfortable 4-room house, 2 
barns and 3 tenant houses, together with 4 cribs, 4^ miles 
from railway station, 1 mile from church and postofflce, and 
300 yards from school. Roads good. Orchards of apples, 
plums and peaches on the place. Well watered, there being 
4 wells, 2 or 3 springs, a lake, and the Oconee River, Espe- 
cially adapted to grain, vegetables and fruits; fine also for 
stock, 115,000; ,|6,500 cash, balance easy payments. 

No. 1188. 
(A). 607^ acres, 400 fenced, 300 under plow, well watered 
and timbered in oak, hickory and pine. Comfortable dwell- 
ing of 6 rooms, 1 barn, 3 good tenant houses, 2^ miles from 
railway station, ^ mile from Irwinton, 1 from church, school 
and postoffice. Some good fruit. 13,600, Wilkinson is in 
the same section described under Bibb, Washington and 
Baldwin. It is a fine agricultural section, well watered and 
timbered, and well adapted to general farming, fruit raising 
and stock. The climate is pleasant and healthful. The Cen- 
tral Railroad passes through the county, and has a branch 
from Gordon to Milledgeville, The shipping facilities are, 
therefore, excellent. Irwinton is the county seat and a short 
distance from the Central Railroad, 



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No. 1189. 
(A). 250 acres, 200 fenced, 50 under plow, 20 acres in orig- 
inal pine forest, 200 in second growth, some in oak and hick- 
ory. ^A'ell watered by springs, branches and well. Com- 
fortable 3-room house, barn, meat-house, etc. fc^ome fruit. 
1^ miles from railway station, 2 miles from Irwinton. |1,600. 

No. 1190. 
(A). 250 acres, 200 fenced, 100 under plow, 50 in original 
forest and 100 in second growth pine, well watered. Com- 
fortable house, (3 rooms, 1 barn, 2 tenant houses; quantity of 
plums, peaches, etc. Land finely adapted to fruit and stock 
raising. 2 miles from Toombsboro, on the Central Railroad, 
6 from Irwinton. Price ^1,200. 

No. 1191. 
(A). 607| acres, 400 fenced, 150 under plow, 200 acres of 
original forest of pine, oak and hickory, 100 second growth 
pine, well watered. Three 2-room tenant houses, 1 barn and 
other out-buildings. 3 miles from railway station and from 
Irwinton. This is a fine property. |3,600. 



272^ acres, with 4 dwelling houses, and other buildings. 2 
miles from Central Railroad,near Carrollton, Ga. Fine fruit 
orchards. For price and terms write to 

P. H. CHANDLER, Carrollton, Ga. 

40 acres, with 7-room house, good water, 500 fruit trees; 
near Eufaula, Ala. For further particulars apply to ■ 

F. GOODROE, Smith ville, Ga. 

405 acres, 1^ miles from Georgetown, Ga. Very fine im- 
provements. For particulars apply to 

JOHN C. JOLLEY, Morris, Ga. 

Plantation containing 3,500 acres well improved land, 
lies both sides Central R. R. of Georgia, county of Bulloch, 
Ala. Will sell entire plantation for $10.00 per acre. 

Write to H. B. WALKER, Suspension, Ala, 

Two valuable farms for sale, one containing 228^ acres of 
land, about 150 acres in cultivation; well watered and 
healthy. Situated 1 mile from the corporate limits of the 
city of Cuthbert. 

The other, containing 202^ acres, with 120 in cultivation, 
2^ miles from city limits, with plenty of running water and 
timber. The places are both healthy and conveniently sit- 
uated to schools, churches, mills and gins. Best land for 
fruit growing in Southwest Georgia; can be divided into 
farms of 100 acres each if desired, with settlement on each 
farm. Most desirably located. Apply early to 

B. J. JACKSON, Cuthbert, Or?. 

800 acres, 2| miles from Cameron, Ga., 300 acres in fine 
state of cultivation. Excellent dwelling house. Price 
).00 per acre. J. F. BROWN, Cameron, Ga. 




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500 acres on Ogeechee River, near Bartow, Ga., Jefiferson 
county. Excellent farming land; all well timbered with 
pine, oak, hickory, etc. For further particulars, apply to 

N. J. ALLEN, Bartow, Ga. 
263 acres, 2 or 3-horse farm, more or less open; fine farm- 
ing lands for, corn, cotton, rice, grain, vegetables, fruit, etc. 
Excellent water. 4 miles from Bartow, Ga. Apply to 

N. J. ALLEN, Bartow, Ga. 
80 acres, 45 acres in cultivation, 10 miles from La- 
Fayette. A good little farm, well adapted to corn, cotton 
wheat, etc. Price |5.50 per acre. 

E. M. OLIVER, LaFayette, Ala. 
80 acres, 50 acres in cultivation, 10 miles from railroad. 
Improved and in good community. Price $4.50 per acre. 

E. M. OLIVER, LaFayette, Ala. 
417 acres, 200 acres in cultivation, 2 miles from railroad. 
Land lies well, and is well watered. Would make a splen- 
did truck farm, or dairy. Only two miles from a depot on 
a through line of railroad. Price |5.50 per acre. 

E. M. OLIVER, LaFayette, Ala. 

960 acres, 300 acres in cultivation. A magnificent body of 

land, 5 miles from railroad. Splendid timber, fertile land,. 

water poAver, a large creek runs through the place. Large 

body of rich bottom land. Price $6.50 per acre. 

E. M. OLIVER, LaFayette, Ala. 
5-room house, 1 acre lot, in LaFayette, and 45 acrea 
within half a mile, 15 acres cleared and in cultivation. A 
good truck and dairy farm. Price $1,500. 

E. M. OLIVER, LaFayette, Ala. 



6-room dwelling, new, and 50 acres of land, 1 mile from 
LaFayette. Splendid land. Price $2,500. 

EAST ALA. LAND AGENCY, LaFayette, Ala. 
CHAMBERS COUNTY. 

320 acres, 160 cultivatd, 4^ miles from LaFayette, 
county seat. Land fertile, red clay sub-soil, well watered, 
heavily timbered. Will sell in small tracts. 

Price $7.00 per acre. 
EAST ALA. LAND AGENCY, LaFayette, Ala. 

320 acres, 120 cultivated, 6 miles from LaFayette, excel- 
lent land, well watered and timbered, close' to schools, 
churches, and in good community. Price $5.00 per acre. 
Both the above farms are well adapted to cotton, corn, 
wheat, oats, etc. 

EAST ALA. LAND AGENCY, LaFayette, Ala. 
260 acres, 7 miles from LaFayette, 5 miles from railroad, 
160 acres cultivated. Two settlements. Well watered, soil 
gray, with red sub-soil. Price $5.00 per acre. 

EAST ALA. LAND AGENCY, LaFayette, Ala. 
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TALLAPOOSA COUNTY. 
•403 acres, 150 acres in cultivation, 4 room house. Well 
watered, clay sub-soil. A good place. 

Price 18.00 per acre. 
EAST ALA. LAND AGENCY, LaFayette, Ala. 
320 acres, 75 acres in cultivation, 4 miles from railroad. 
Good 3-room house. Good land, well timbered and wa- 
tered. A fine place. Price $3.50 per acre. 
EAST ALA. LAND AGENCY, LaFayette, Ala. 
243 acres, 150 cultivated, 7 miles from LaFayette, 5 miles 
from railroad. Three settlements, good gin-house, out- 
houses, etc. Well watered and timbered. Good for corn 
and cotton, wheat, oats. Would make a splendid stock 
farm. Price |8.00 per acre. 
EAST ALA. LAND AGENCY, LaFayette, Ala. 
240 acres, 140 cultivated, 10 miles from LaFayette, 5 
miles from railroad. Splendid land, well watered. Price 
$5.50 per acre. Will sell a good mill in connection with this 
on a fine water power. 

EAST ALA. LAND AGENCY, LaFayette, Ala. 
343 acres, 200 acres cultivated, 8 miles from LaFayette, 

4 miles from railroad. A splendid farm, would make a 
magnificent dairy and stock farm. Eight-room dwelling, 

5 teii^<nt houses, good barn and stables. Land fertile and 
lies well, good for fruit growing. Price |8.00 per acre. 

EAST ALA. LAND AGENCY, LaFayette, Ala. 

3,300 acres, 1,000 acres in cultivation. Good improve- 
ments, well watered, splendid original forest, two large 
creeks running through the land. Adapted to stock raising, 
fruit growing, as well as to the staple crops of this section. 
A bargain. Price |5.50 per acre. 

EAST ALA. LAND AGENCY, LaFayette, Ala. 

200 acres of splendid fruit, dairy and stock farming land, 

1 mile from the town of Smithville. 

Price 18.00 and |10.00 per acre. 
Apply to CHAS. W. JENNINGS, Smithville, Ga. 

$35,000. Large Southern plantation, 4,500 acres, located 
at Rogers, Burke county, Ga. Full particulars bv addressing 

W. O. WADLEY, Rogers, Ga. 
125-acre farm, 3 miles north of Leary. 100 acres in cul- 
tivation. Well improved. Loam soil. $5.00 per acre. 

J. B. GEORGE, Leary, Ga. 
1,500-acre plantation, 3^ miles northwest of Leary. 500 
acres of fine pine timber, excellent improvements. 7-room 
dwelling, steam gin, splendid barns, etc. $6.00 per acre. 

J. B. GEORGE, Leary, Ga. 
Cotton plantation, 660 acres. Stifl' red soil, 300 acres in 
high state of cultivation. Good tenant houses and fencing. 

2 miles south of Leary. |3.00 per acre. 

J. B. GEORGE, Leary, Ga. 



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275-acre farm on Notcliaway, 3 miles west of Leary. Im- 
provements and fencing for 2-liorse farm. $1.75 per acre. 

J. B. GEORGE, Leai'y, Ga. 
A desirable farm for sale, situated 1 mile east of Fruit- 
land Heights and Howard Home; 3 miles northeast of Cuth- 
bert, Ga. On public road to Brooksville, Ga. This farm con- 
tains 300 acres, 100 red clay soil, balance sandy loam, with 
clay sub-soil ; 150 acres cleared, 150 in woods and creek bot- 
tom land. The home of the peach and vine, corn, cotton, 
cane and potatoes. Will sell cheap for cash if purchased 
soon. For terms apply to 

C. 'D. BROWN, Arlington, Ga. 
300 acres, 1^ miles from Andersonville, Ga. Splendid 
place for fruit farm ; 200 acres level gray land with clay sub- 
soil; plenty of water; 5-room dwelling and good improve- 
ments. Apply to R. S. ENGLESER, Andersonville, Ga. 

GOO acres, within 2^ miles of Midville, Ga.; well improved 
and adapted to long cotton. Price $3,500. 

I. T. SMITH, Midville, Ga. 
For sale, 100^ acres of good farming or truck growing 
land, directly on railroad, passing through it Adapted to 
peaches, pears or apples. New dwelling and good well water. 
100 pear trees in bearing on place. For particulars and 
terms apply to 

E. A. BOOKER, Enterprise, Lee Co., Ga. 
1,000 acres, lying both sides Central R. R. of Ga., two 
miles from Cameron, good dwelling house, land well 
adapted to truck farming or watermelon culture. $3.00 per 
^cre. E. M. LAWTON, Pensacola, Fla. 

Plantation GOO acres high pine land, desirable U-room 
dwelling, 10 miles from Oliver, Ga., and 4G miles from Savan- 
nah. 150 acres cleared and under fence. Valuable orchard, 
consisting of peaches, pears, apples, figs and grapes. A most 
desirable Southern home; beautiful grounds. Price |3,000, 
easy terms. W. G. BREWER, 19 Bull St., Savanah, Ga. 

Plantation 700 acres fine nine and river lands. 200 acres 
cleared and under fence. Specially adapted to the culture 
of grain, cotton and rice. Land is situated 12 miles from 
Oliver. Good improvements. Fine stock range. Easy 
tefnis. , Pi-iee |2,500. 

W. G. BREWER, 19 Bull St., Savannah, Ga. 
Two ideal village homes at Oliver, Ga., one consisting of 
8-room house, 10-acre lot, fine young orchard, peaches, pears, 
etc. Other, 7-room house, 100-acre lot, also has good young 
orchard of peaches, pears, plums, etc. For further partic- 
ulars address 

W. G. BREWER, 19 Bull St., Savannah, Ga. 
200 acres, quarter mile from depot. Well improved, good 
dwelling and out-houses. This place is well watered and in 
good condition. Price |8.00 per acre. For further informa- 
tion address 

DR. L. A. GRAYBILL, Oconee, Ga. 



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326 acres, 4 miles froiu depot, no improvements. Well 
watered and a splendid stock farm. Price |2.50 per acre. 
DK. L. A. GKAYBILL, Oconee, Ga. 

372 acres, 3 miles from depot. Some improvements, well 
watered. Price |6.00 per acre. Address 

DR. L. A. GRAYBILL, Oconee, Ga. 

100 acres, 6 miles from depot. No improvements, well 
watered. Price |3.00 per acre. Address 

DR. L. A. GRAYBILL, Oconee, Ga, 

360 acres, 4 miles from depot. Well improved, plenty good 
water. Price |8.00 per acre. Address 

DR. L. A. GRAYBILL, Oconee, Ga. 

"One of the best homes in the South" for sale. 660 acres 
lying along the line of Central R. R. of Ga. 8 miles of Opelika 
and 125 miles of Birmingham; permanent flag station, 
"Stonewall," in quarter mile of residence. Lands productive 
for cotton, corn and small grain. The place is admirably 
adapted to truck gardening and to the dairy business; inter- 
spersed with springs and never-failing branches. The place 
has a large orchard of choice fruit, apples, pears, peaches 
and other small fruits; healthy climate free from chill and 
fever; good community; convenient to Methodist and Bap- 
tist churches, and in 7 miles of the A. & M. College at Auburn. 

Price 112.50 per acre. 
J.iS. N; DAVIS, Gold Hill, Lee Co., Ala. 

200 acres land, 1 mile from Morris Station, Ga. 125 acres 
in high state of cultivation, 'balance well timbered and wa- 
tered. Good improvements. Price |900. A bargain. Easy 
terms. Cause for selling, non-resident. This price guaran- 
teed to 1st Januarv, 1890. 

C.'W. HOISTREN, Sumner, G a. 

200 acres, land well improved, well watered; 100 acres 
opened, in Sumter county, Ga., 5 miles from Smithville, Ga. 
$1,000. Easy terms; price guaranteed to 1st of January, 
1896. Also, residence in city of Americas, Sumter county, 
Ga. 4-roomed house, 'on Finn street; front 85 feet and 130 
feet back, in 5 minutes' walk of the Court House. Price |1,000. 
Easy terms. Price guaranteed 1st January, 1890. Cause 
for selling each place, non-residence. 

PATRICK BASS, Sumner, Ga., Worth Co. 

75 acres, within 40 miles of Atlanta, fronting nearly half a 
mile on main line of Central R. R. of Ga, Half planted in 
apples, peaches, plums, grapes, etc., mostly in bearing. 
6-room residence and fine barn and packing house, all in 
good repair. 5 acres in fine oak grove, splendid for building 
lots. 3 minutes' walk from station and postofflce. One of 
the prettiest, best and most convenient locations between 
Atlanta and Macon. Splendid neighbors. Very cheap at 
$4,000. Titles perfect. Applv to 

SMITH BROS., Concord, Ga. 



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1,000 acres, about GO acres cleared, balance heavily tim- 
bered. Fine location for saw-mill. Apply to 

\ R. E. MELDRIM, Box 41), Swainsboro, Ga. 
650 acres, near Geneva, Ga. Fine farming land; would 
also make fine stock farm. Timber on place; also, 6-room 
dwelling house and four tenant houses. For terms write 

CHAS. McBRYDE, Geneva, Ga. 
70-acre farm, inside of incorporate limits; nice 4-room 
dwelling ; good stockade ; four 2-room tenant houses. Can be 
bought for 12,200. Owner 

W. P. WALTON, Coleman, Ga. 
200 acres, on edge of city limits; new 2-room dwelling, 
stockade, etc. One 1-horse farm cleared, balance well tim- 
bered and watered. Can be bought for |2,500. Owner 

W. P. WALTON, Coleman, Ga. 
125-acre farm, 1 mile from town; improved land; no dwell- 
ings or tenant houses. Can be bought for, |500, of 

W. P. WALTON, Coleman, Ga. 
140-acre farm. 1^ miles from town; good dwelling and 
stockade, 1 tenant house. Can be bought for $600. Owner 

W. P. WALTON, Coleman, Ga, 



W. H. NORWOOD'S LIST, PERRY, GA. 

400-acre farm in and near Perry, as well adapted to all 
Southern products, and to peach and other fruits as any 
in county; 300 acres open level land, with two distinct 
grades of soil, and well watered. Splendid 10-room resi- 
dence, barns and ample tenant houses, etc. 

One of the finest and cheapest farms in this entire sec- 
tion. Location and adaptability to all things considered. 

Price $6,670. 

1,215-acre farm, comparatively level, several grades of 
soil, oak and hickory, well watered, good improvements, 
half or more open and in cultivation. Now run as cotton, 
grain and stock farm, 8 miles from Perry, 7 miles from 
Winchester, S. W. R. R., and about 7 miles from Rumph's 
"Willow Lake Nursery." Good fruit land. Price $7,224. 

450-acre farm, 3 miles from Perry, with the Perry branch 
railroad running through it, level, well watered, 300 acres 
open and in cultivation. In touch with the Ohio Fruit Com- 
pany, and no better adapted soil for truck and fruit in the 
county, and the peach belt. Fair improvements. Residence 
and tenant houses. Price $8,000. 

Manufacturing site, 4| miles from Perry. The Houston 
Cotton Mills, or the town of Dennard (incorporated), contain- 
ing 40 to 50 houses of all kinds, viz: 

Factory building, grist mill, saw mill, ginnery, machine 
shop, store and postoffice, tenant houses, etc. Fine water 
power, sufficient to run or double capacity of whole. 



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000 acres of laud, more or less, including that covered by 
water or pond, the lish product of which is worth not less 
than |500 annually. 

60 looms, 2,240 spindles, and other machinery necessary 
to supply and run the same. This property in best section 
of county, all things considered, for its business. 

Price 140,000. 

467|-acre farm, 7 miles from Perry, Houston county, Ga.; 
comparatively level, good state of cultivation, about half 
open, with fair improvements, consisting of residence, tenant 
houses, barns, gin-house, etc. Price |3,330. 

377-acre farm, 9 miles from Perry, Houston county, Ga.; 
mostly open and in fair state of cultivation. Improvements 
such only as required generally for tenants on cotton farms. 

Price |2,000. 

1,800-acre farm, 5 miles from Perry, Houston county, Ga. 
This plantation will have to be seen to be properly apprecia- 
ted from a value standpoint. 

Containing some 1,300 acres of arable land, much of it as 
level as a floor and of a red or chocolate character, it easily 
ranks as one of the finest in this section and county. Well 
watered and of a character of soil susceptible of high im- 
provement, it is, withal, well improved in way of tenant 
houses for the best utility of the entire plantation; yet can 
be divided into small farms. Price |25,000. 

One 15-room hotel in Perry, Houston county, Ga. New 
and well constructed for convenience and comfort to guests. 
Water running through all parts of first floor. Six bedrooms 
furnished complete, three unfurnished; parlor and ofiQce 
well furnished, also kitchen furnished and with drains of 
running water. Good stables on lot, which is 125x225, with 
fruit and grapes. Now doing good business. Price |5,000. 



35 acres of land in the town of Smithville, Lee county, Ga., 
near Central Railroad; in a high state of cultivation; espe- 
cially adapted to growing fruit and vegetables. For partic- 
ulars apply to C. C. ANSLEY, at the above-named place. 

300 acres, 1 mile from Morris Station, Ga. Well improved, 
good dwelling house. flO.OO per acre. 

H. H. TEEL, Morris, Ga. 

80 acres, lying all around station and on each side of rail- 
road ; two-thirds of land in cultivation ; best water facilities 
through plantation. Good 4-room dwelling, hall, and veranda 
in front, back veranda, kitchen and dining room attached. 
Good spring, also well ; good barn, smokehouse, 2-room pan- 
try; good frame tenant house, with 2 fire-places; store-house 
fronting railroad and public road. Price guaranteed for 6 
months. |2,000. 

MRS. N. J. JOHNSON, Morris, Ga. 

227 acres, good 4-room dwelling, 2 fire-places, best well of 
water, good barn, smoke-house, 3 tenant houses, two-thirds 



of land in cultivation; good water facilities; lying each side 
railroad; quarter mile west of Morris Station; dwelling only 
half mile. Price guaranteed for six months. |9.00 per acre. 

RUBIN THOMAS, Morris, Ga. 

226 acres, 12 miles from Augusta, near Central R. R of Ga, 
125 acres cleared in one field ; very fine brown land ; 40 acres 
in open land, suitable for orchard. Fine stream of water, 
spring and well. 6-room dwelling, large barn and stable. 

13,000. 
ALEXANDER & JOHNSON, Augusta, Ga. 

956 acres, 1 mile from Allen Station, on Central Railroad 
of Ga. 250 acres cleared, balance in original forest of pine. 
First-class upland, well watered by bold creek. Dam already 
built, furnishing 200 horse power. Dwelling, 3 rooms, 4 
barns and 3 cabins. $10,000. 

ALEXANDER & JOHNSON, Augusta, Ga. 

500 acres at Allen Station on Central R. R., 10 miles from 
Augusta. 150 acres cleared, balance in pine and oak. 25 
acres fine bottom land. Soil, sandy loam and red clay sub- 
soil. Cottage of 4 rooms, barn, etc, |6,000. 
ALEXANDER & JOHNSON, Augusta, Ga. 

819 acres in Jefferson county, Ga., 3 miles from Holcombe 
Station on Central R. R. of Ga., 6 miles from Midville. 450 
acres cleared, balance in oak, hickory and pine. Good sandy 
loam and red land, lying along the Ogeechee River, 1 branch 
running through the place. Improvements, 6 tenant houses, 
no dwelling. First-class for fine stock farm. |4.00 per acre. 
ALEXANDER & JOHNSON, Augusta, Ga, 

Half mile from Green's Cut, 182 acres, 6 miles south of 
Augusta. 50 acres cleared, balance in hardwood. First- 
class bottom land for corn and oats. No improvements. 

|2,500. 
ALEXANDER & JOHNSON, Augusta, Ga. 

879 acres, 16 miles southeast of Augusta, half mile from 
McBean on Central R. R. 20 acres high land, balance in dense 
swamp of cypress and cane. For hog raising there is noth- 
ing to equal this place. 3-room house and barn. |1,800. 
ALEXANDER & JOHNSON, Augusta, Ga. 

228 acres, three-quarters mile from Green's Cut, 6 miles 
south of Augusta. All cleared, rich river bottom land un- 
excelled for a hay farm. Barns, stables, cattle sheds, goat 
and sheep houses, 5 cabins. |4,500. 

ALEXANDER & JOHNSON, Augusta, Ga. 

500 acres at Green's Cut, 5^ miles south of Augusta. 60 
acres high land in fine state of cultivation, 150 acres in rich 
Bermuda grass and cane pasture. There is no finer stock 
farm in the State than this place. 3-room dwelling and sev- 
eral out-houses. |3,800. 
ALEXANDER & JOHNSON, Augusta, Ga. 



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LANDS FOR SALE BY MALCOLM MACLEAN & CO., 
SAVANNAH, GA. 

78 acres in 1208 district Emanuel county, Ga., improved. 

Price 13.00 per acre. 
40 acres in 1208 district Emanuel county, Ga,, improved. 

Price 15.00 per acre. 
140 acres in 1452 district Emanuel county, Ga., improved. 

Price |3.00 per acre. 
300 acres in 395 district Emanuel county, Ga., unimproved, 
timbered. Price |2.00 per acre. 

90 acres in 1305 district Johnson county, Ga., open and 
timber land. Price |4.00 per acre. 

100 acres in 55 district Johnson county, Ga., open and tim- 
ber land. Price |2.00 per acre. 
174 acres in 1203 district Johnson county, Ga., open and 
timber land. Price |2.00 per acre. 
100 acres in 1405' district Johnson county, Ga., open and 
timber land. Price |2.50 per acre. 
65 acres in 98 district Washington county, Ga., open lands. 

Price 12.00 per acre. 
60 acres in 99 district Washington county, Ga., open lands. 

Price $2.00 per acra 
90 acres in 98 district Washington county, Ga., improved. 

Price $3.00 per acre. 
100 acres in 90 district Washington county, Ga., open land 
and small house. Price $3.00 per acre. 

50 acres in 98 district Washington county, Ga., unim- 
proved. Price $3.00 per acre. 
279 acres in 71 district Burke county, Ga-, improved, well 
watered. Price $6.00 per acre. 

750 acres, $5 per acre; located 1 mile east of Ida Vesper, 
Ga. Property contains 125 acres bottom land, balance clay 
sub-soil. Three settlements on land. Fine water power. 

Address R. W. REVELL, Ida Vesper, Ga. 



DESCRIPTION OF FARMS FOR SALE, WAYNESBORO, 
BURKE COUNTY, GEORGIA. 

219^ acres in one body, 9 miles from Waynesboro, on the 
Thompson Bridge public road; 146 acres of upland, 73^ of 
first bottom, 143-J in cultivation, 6 in pasture, 1 of orchard 
and 6 of timber — oak, ash and hickory; 162 under ash pine 
fences, in very good condition, and generally level; watered 
by Briar Creek and branch. Improvements are a 1-story 
frame, shingle roof, of two rooms, and 2 log tenant houses 
on the farm, all in good repair. This is a good place, con- 
venientlv located to school and churches. $1,000. 

W. H. WALTERS, Waynesboro, Ga. 

127 acres, three-quarters mile from Lawton, on the Cen- 
tral Railroad, 4^ miles from Millen. Good agricultural land, 
well watered. Will sell cheap. 



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wells, several spriiif^g^ and two large creeks on place. Post- 
office on the farm; good roads. This place has rented for 
An excellent farm of 1,500 acres, 400 under plow, com- 
fortable residence of 4 rooms, 6 small' farm houses, 2 good 
|G00 annually. It is especially adapted to a stock fai'm, as 
the Bermuda grass is very fine. |6,500. Third cash, balance 
in 1, 2 and 3 vears. 

W. H. WALTERS, Waynesboro, Ga. 

500 acres, 275 under plow, 225 in oak and hickory. Well 
watered by wells and streams; G tenant houses, 4 of 1 room, 
2 of 3 rooms; 6 barns. 5 miles from Waynesboro, the county 
seat, and 3 from church and school. $3,500. Burke has long 
been distinguished for its fine agricultural lands. It is un- 
surpassed in the production of cotton and is finely adapted 
to cane, corn, oats, peas and other farm crops, to fruits and 
vegetables and to stock raising. It lies along the Savannah 
River and is immediately south of Richmond county; Au- 
gusta a few miles distant, furnishing a good home market, 
and excellent shipping facilities to the North, East and West 
The Central Railroad runs directly through the middle of 
the county, and, besides, passes with its main line through 
the southern end. Waynesboro, the county seat, is a pro- 
gressive and pleasant town, on the Central Railroad, be- 
tween Augusta and Savannah. It is 100 miles from Savan- 
nah and 32 from Augusta. ] 

W. H. WALTERS, Waynesboro, Ga. 

640 acres, 160 under plow, 60 in forest; watered by several 
streams and large creek. 4-room residence, small barn, 3 
tenant houses. Orchard of peaches. Finely adapted to gen- 
eral farming, fruit and stock raising. 6 miles from railway 
station, 10 miles from Waynesboro, 2 from church and 
school. fl,100; terms to suit purchaser. 

W. H. WALTERS, Waynesboro. Ga- 

205 acres, finely timbered in yellow pine and well watered. 
21 miles from Augusta, 12 miles from Waynesboro. Good 
agricultural land. $10 per acre. 

W. H. WALTERS, Waynesboro, Ga. 

Two tracts, one of 160 acres, and one of 418. Fine pine. 
12 miles from Waynesboro, well watered and good farm 
land. |7 an acre. 

W. H. WALTERS, Waynesboro, Ga. 

180 acres, just south of the incorporate limits of Jonesboro, 
Ga. Quality of land above the average. Central Railroad 
passes through center of farm, giving railroad frontage of 
three-quarters of a mile on either side. Good improvements. 

Apply to LEE ADAMS, Jonesboro, Ga. 



FRUIT T ARM FOR SALE. 

150 acres, good dwelling house, 7 rooms ; good water, barn, 
etc.; plenty of timber; 600 LeConte and Keiffer pear trees 
in full bearing, about same number just coming into bearing. 
Japan plums, grapes and peaches. Half mile from depot on 



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Central ]i. K. of Ga., about midway between Amei-icus and 
Albany, Ga. Correspondence solicited. Address 

McKENNEY & JOHNSON, Smithville, Lee Co., Ga. 

1,500 acres, extending from Ogeecliee River to Louisville 
road, 300 acres high state of cultivation, balance well tim- 
bered. Good improvements. ,$5.00 per acre. 
W. M. HENDERSON, Cameron, Ga, 

One farm with 220 acres, within 200 yards depot, and in 
high state of cultivation, with good 2-story house and plenty 
room for large family, and a good tenant house, with 3 rooms. 
Good barn and other improvements. Can be bought for 

120.00 per acre. 
J. J. & JG. O. HILL, Bronwood, Ga, 

One farm, 210 acres, very level and fine land to improve, 
and make very rich and productive. Two good tenant houses, 
with barns and other improvements, with good new fence 
around farm. 3-horse farm cleared, and in high state of cul- 
tivation. This farm is within 1 mile of depot, land accessible 
to churches, schools and social privileges. This place is held 
at $10.00 per acre. 

J. J. & G. O. HILL, Bronwood, Ga, 

One farm, in a body of 8,000 acres, of fair farming lands, 
watered by tw^o creeks (Kinchafoonee and Middle Creek) 
and a number of small streams, which makes it finely adapt- 
ed for stock farming. All of this will be sold in a body, or 
sub-divided, if preferred by purchaser. Can be bought at 
an average price of $7.00 per acre. From 4 to 7 miles from 
depot at Bronwood. Plenty of hard timber on this place, 
very healthy location. 

J. J. & G. O. HILL, Bronw ood, Ga. 

Also following property for sale by J. J. & G. O. HILL, 
Bronwood, Ga. : 

One farm of 200 acres within 1 mile of Shellman, Ga., with 
3 good tenant houses, 100 acres in high state of cultivation, 
well watered and well adapted fruit and vegetables. ^Vill 
sell for |2,500. 

One farm of 800 acres, 3 miles from Bronwood and 5 from 
Dawson, 1 mile from Sassia, Located in one of the best 
farming settlements in the county (Terrill). This farm is 
in a high state of cultivation and 14 plows are being run 
this year on the place. Usually make 12 bales of cotton to 
the plow. Timbered sufficient to keep up the farm. Place 
well watered by 2 creeks. Splendid dw^elling and good ten- 
ant houses. Well adapted for growing any crops, including 
fruits, grapes, etc. Will 'sell for $15.00 per acre. This is a 
bargain. 

One farm of 32^ acres, within three-quarters mile of depot 
at Bronwood, and good fertile land that makes a. bale of cot- 
ton to the acre. One 7-room dwelling, 2 good tenant houses, 
2 good barns, a splendid well of water; land adapted to 
fruits, all kinds, and grapes, etc. Will sell for $2,500. 



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One farm of 200 acres, within 2^ miles of Bronwood, in 
fair state of cultivation, with 3-horse farm cleared, with 
good fence; all land all fresh. No house on place, but con- 
venient to saw-mill. Within 1 mile of Kinchafoonee Creek. 
Will sell for 18.00 per acre. 

Plantation containing 1,000 acres, 7 miles from Bronwood, 
with two settlements on it, and in fine state of cultivation, 
and on Kinchafoonee Creek, with an abundance of fine hard 
timber of all kinds. This entire place can be bought at |5.00 
per acre, or any part of it cut up to suit purchaser (not taking 
less than 400 acres in body) at |7.50 per acre. 

A splendid house in the little town of Bronwood, with 25 
acres of land attached, with splendid 7-room dwelling, ceiled 
and painted throughout; good outhouses, barns, etc. Im- 
provements on this place cost |4,000, and the place is held 
at $2,500. A fine young orchard on this place. Health of 
place fine and water splendid. 

One place containing 150 acres of land, 3-horse farm of 
fresh land, in high state of cultivation ; good 3-room dwelling 
and good out-houses. Within 2 miles of Broonwood, and 4 
miles from Dawson. This place can be bought at 

115.00 per acre. 

One farm containing 202^ acres, within 1 mile of depot, 
with 3-liorse farm cleared and in fine state of cultivation. 
One good house fot white family, and 2 negro houses, and 
other improvements good. This place is held a.t |20.00 per 
acre. This is very cheap for this place. 



THE INTERNATIONAL HOMESTEAD COMPANY 

has the following properties on the line of the CENTRAL 
RAILROAD OF GEORGIA system: 

1,000 acres near Irondale, Ala., in 20-acre fruit farms. 
f 25.00 per acre, easy payments. 

1,000 acres near Gold Hill, Lee county, Ala. 

110.00 per acre. 
1,000 acres near Opelika, Lee county, Ala. 

110.00 per acre. 

2,000 acres near Greenville, Meriwether county, Ga. 

110.00 per acre. 

70 acres near Hamilton, Harris county, Ga. 25 acres un- 
der cultivation. 3,000 grapevines, and apple orchard, 100 
pecan trees 4 years old, water good. Quarter mile from 
station, quarter mile from school, church and postoffice. 
House of 7 rooms and cellar, barns and good out-buildings. 
Good roads. |20.00 per acre. 

600 acres near Americus, Sumter county, Ga. Cleared 
fruit land. |12.50 per acre. 

3,000 acres, unimproved, well watered, near Leslie Sta- 
tion, Sumter county, Ga. |5.00 per acre. 



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1,000 acres, Fort Valley, Ga. Fine fruit land. 

110.00 per acre. 

1,215 acres near Macon, Ga. 400 acres under plow. Plenty 
of oak and hickory timber. 4-room residence, ceiled and 
painted, heated and comfortable, live 2-room tenant houses, 
one 4-room tenant house, three 1-room houses. 

16.00 per acre. 

2,085 acres adjoining the city of Milledgeville, Baldwin 
county, Ga. Fishing creek runs through center of tract. 75 
acres bottom land; GO bushels of oats to an acre; 1,000 acres 
cleared. Lots fronting city will sell for foO.OO per acre. 

111.00 per acre. 

517 acres 10 miles from Milledgeville, Ga. 4-room dwell- 
ing, nearly new; two 1-room tenant houses. 492 acres up- 
land, 25 acres bottom land, 150 acres cultivated, 75 acres 
Bermuda grass pasture. Cultivated and pasture land under 
fence, nearly level. |4.00 per acre. 

313 acres 5 miles northeast of Milledgeville, Ga. 2-story 
frame dwelling, 6 rooms; 3 tenant houses. 150 acres under 
cultivation, 85 acres cleared, 75 acres oak and hickory tim- 
ber. Fine for peaches and grapes. |6.00 per acre. 

Send stamps for circulai's, maps, etc., to 

INTERNATIONAL HOMESTEAD CO., 
1921 First Avenue, Birmingham, Ala. 

For sale, 1,396 acres of land 8 miles from Milledgeville. 
Residence containing 9 rooms, and other out-houses, 9 double 
frame, 10 single frame tenant houses; 2 large barns; well 
watered with creek and 3 branches, well or spring at each 
tenant settlement. Large ginnery and grist mill, now run 
by steam, could be run by water. Large frame store-house, 
that rents for a good price. Good roads. Convenient to 
churches and schools; 10 acres in pecan trees. The land is 
well adapted to all kinds of fruits, vegetables, grain and 
cotton. The soil is red and gray, very productive ; 300 or 400 
acres in fine bottom lands, Bermuda grass pastures, and it 
would make a fine stock farm. Price |12.00 per acre. Will 
sell altogether or part of it. I will guarantee the above 
price for six months from 1st August, 1805. For further 
information apply to 

D. W. BROWN, Milledgeville, Ga. 

453 acres on the Central R. R, of Ga.. in Screven county, 
half way between Halcyondale and Cameron. Well adapted 
for trucking and stock raising. Price $3,000. 

JNO. R. HUMPHRIES, Halcyondale, Ga. 

3,000 acres, in high state of improvement, 2 water powers. 
800 acres cleared. flO.OO per acre. Land extends nearly 
to depot. 

JNO. H. HUMPHRIES, Halcyondale, Ga. 

130 acres, 60 cleared, balance well timbered; fine improve- 
ments. Place is located 3 miles from Carrollton, Ga. Prop- 
erty contains fine rich quarrv. Apply to 

MRS. M. F. FAMBRO, Carrollton, Ga. 




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I wish to sell, for the benefit of the heirs, one hundred and 
five (105) acres of land, known as the Wm. M. Wadley place, 
1^ miles from Oconee, Central Railroad. 2-horse farm in 
cultivation, well timbered and watered; fine fruits; good 
tenant houses; spacious lawns; good land. For further in- 
formation apply to 

F. M. HYMAN, Tennille, Ga. 
A farm of 1,350 acres, 3 miles from Arlington, Ga., on the 
Central Railroad; very productive land, suitable for corn, 
cotton, sugar cane and oats. There are 10 mules on the place, 
about half of the laud cleared. For sale at |5.00 an acre 
cash. The mules, corn, fodder, cotton seed and meat hogs 
can be bought with the place. 

T. F. JONES, Blakely, Ga. 
885 acres near Blakely, Ga. Has a running stream on 
place. Fine land and improvements. Apply to 

W. H. ALEXANDER, Blakely, Ga. 
2CG acres, lies on water of Buffalo Creek, near Oconee, Ga. 
In good state of cultivation. Also, near this place, 400 acres, 
well adapted to raising corn, cotton, etc. Applv to 

W. A. SMITH, Oconee, Ga. 
550 acres, more or less, situated in half a mile of Tennille, 
Ga. Well watered, pasturage of cane and Bermuda; soil 
adapted to cotton and corn; also, fine for fruit. Has 3,000 
peach trees on place, most of them Elbertas. Fine water; 
home and out-buildings. Excellent place for dairy farm. 
60 miles from Macon, Ga., and 130 miles from Savannah, 
Ga. Two passenger trains each wav dail}. 

WM. L. BULLARD, M. D., Columbus, Ga. 
A plantation of 300 acres in W^ashington county, half mile 
from Robison, No. 13^, Central R. R. Dwelling and tenant 
houses and other improvements on it. Well adapted to fruit, 
especially peaches. 200 acres in good state of cultivation, 
balance in timber — oak and pine. Price |8.00 per acre. Small 
cash payment, balance in 3 years. Address 

S. B. ROBISON, Statesboro, Ga. 
Fine stock farm for sale, 450 acres, three-quarters of which 
is cleared land. A most desirable place for stock farm, as 
the Bermuda grass grows in great quantities. Address 
owner for full particulars. 

Price 110.00 per acre next 5 months. 
A. D. NISBET, Milledgeville, Ga. 
200 acres, directly on Central Railroad of Ga., 1 mile from 
Barnesville, Ga., 2,000 apple trees, 100 acres in wood, bal- 
ance cleared, one 4-room house. Price |25.00 per acre for 
next 4 or 5 months. Particulars applv to 

E. T. POUND, Barnesville, Ga. 
209 acres, 1^ miles from Barnesville, Ga., half in woods, 
half cleared. Well suited for fruit raising. 

Price $10.00 per acre next 5 monts. 
E. T. POUND, Barnesville, Ga. 



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405 acres, 2 miles from Barnesville. Apple and peacli 
orchards, line timber enouj^li for several hundred thousand 
feet of lumber. Would make a valuable dairy farm. Good 
live creek and several branches on it. |10.00 per acre for 5 
months. This is a choice tract of land. If not sold in 4 
months may withdraw from market. Remember Gordon In- 
stitute has over 400 students, the best school in the State. 
Society here unsurpassed, and the farm will pay in market 
garden, fruit and stock raising, besides about 100 acres of 
choice bottom land will produce 40 bushels corn per acre. 
Come and see these farms. No better purchase can be made. 

E. T. POUND, Barnesville, Ga. 



GEORGIA LOAN & TRUST CO.'S LIST, AMERICUS, GA. 

No. 1 — Randolph County. 
557 acres, in a body, in the 6th District of Randolph Co., 
two miles from Coleman's Station. 50 acres bottom, bal- 
ance upland. Lands of good quality and lie well. Improve- 
ments in fair condition. Place well watered and timbered. 
Good neighborhood. Price |2,500. 

No. 2— Randolph County. ' 
397 acres in a body about 13 miles north of Cuthbert, 
Ga. All upland, lies well and in good state of cultivation. 
Improvements fair. Price |1,200. 

No. 3 — Jefferson County. 
758 acres in the 5th District of Jefferson county, Ga., about 
6 miles northeast of Louisville, Ga., on the Ogeechee River. 
A fine stock farm. Good uplands and bottoms. Fairly im- 
proved. Price |3,000. 
No. 4 — Monroe County. 
680 acres in a'body, in the eastern portion of the county, 
about three miles from Dames Ferry, on the Ocmulgee River. 
Fine bottoms and good uplands. A fine stock farm. Build- 
ings in fair condition. Price |4,500. 
No. 5 — Monroe County. 
640 acres in the 12th District of Monroe county, Ga., in 
the S. W. portion of the count.y, six miles from railroad sta- 
tion. A very fine farm; good uplands and rich bottoms. 
Good 0-room dwelling and good out-houses. One of the best 
farms in this section. Price |5,000. 
No.6 — Crawford County. 
405 acres in a body in Crawford county. Good pine up- 
lands. Well watered and timbered. Improvements fair. 

Price |1,200. 

No. 7 — Crawford County. 

260 acres in the 2d Distinct of Crawford county, Ga. Good 

uplands; well suplied with timber and water and in good 

state of cultivation. Improvements fair. Price |1,500. 



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No. 8 — Crawford County. 
365 acres about six miles N. W. of Fort Valley, in the great 
fruit belt. Good" uplands, suitable for fruits and general 
farming. Fair improvements. Price |4,200. 

No. 9 — Crawford County. 
1024 acres in a body in the 2d District of Crawford county, 
Ga. A good little farm with fair improvements. Well sup- 
plied with timber and water. Price |600. 
No. 10— Taylor County. 
405 acres in the 15th .District of Taylor county, Ga., about 
10 miles north of Butler. A good farm, all upland, lies well 
and is in good state of cultivation. Improvements fair. 

Price 12,400. 

No. 11 — Taylor County. 

202^ acres in a body three miles east of Butler, the couuty 

seat "a good upland farm. Price |800. 

No. 12— Taylor County. ^. 

75 acres adjoining the corporate limits of Butler, Taylor 

cOuntv. A good residence farm with 6-room frame dwelling. 

Price |1,500. 
No. 13— Taylor County. 
202^ acres in the 13th District of Taylor county, about 9 
miles south of Butler. A good upland farm, with fair im- 
provements. Price 1700. 
No. 14 — Taylor County. 
708f acres in a body about two miles south of Butler. A 
^ood upland farm, well adapted to fruit and general farm- 
ing. Well watered and timbered. Good mill seat and water 
power on the property. A bargain at the price. |4,500. 
No. 15— Talbot County. 
607^ acres in the 11th District of Talbot county. Lands 
of fair quality and well supplied with timber and water. 
Improvements fair. A bargain at the price. |1,000. 
No. 16— Talbot County. 
554^ acres in a body in the 10th District of Talbot count\^ 
Uplands and bottoms. Well supplied with timber and water 
and in fair state of cultivation. A bargain at the price 
offered. |1,500. 
INo. 17 — Brooks County. 
1,057 acres, good, level pine uplands. WeW supplied with 
timber and water and in good state of cultivation. Im- 
provements fair. A bargain at the price. $3,500. 
No. 18 — Brooks County. 
623 acres in the 13th District of Brooks county. Well 
supplied with timber and water. Good pine upland. 

Price |2,500. 

No. 19 — Brooks County. 

800 acres. An excellent farm of the best quality of pine 

uplands. Fine timber and good water. Improvements fair, 

A bargain at the price. |4,000. 

No. 20 — Brooks County. 

450 acres. A good farm in uplands and bottoms. Well 



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timbered and watered. Fair improvements. A bargain at 
the price offered. $1,500. 

No. 21 — Thomas County. 
345 acres in a body. A first-rate farm, with lands of good 
qualit.y. Onlj' .3 miles from Thomasville, Ga., the famous 
winter resort. Well timbered and watered and in good state 
of cultivation. Price |4,000. 

No. 22 — Thomas County. 
475 acres in the northern part of Thomas county. Good 
pine uplands, well supplied with water and timber. 

Price $1,300. 
No. 23— Thomas County. 
295 acres in the western part of Thomas county. Good 
improvements and well supplied with timber and water. 
A good bargain at the price offered. |1,800. 

No. 24 — Bibb and Adjoining Counties. 
1,500 acres in a body. One of the very handsomest farms 
in Middle Georgia, Lands all lie well, of excellent, quality, 
in good state of cultivation, well watered and timbered. 
Improvements first-rate. A fine 2-story dwelling, handsome 
yard and fine grove surrounding houses. Near railroad sta- 
tion and market. The improvements could hardly be put 
on for the price we ask for the whole. A great bargain for 
one who wants a valuable farm and a ibeautiful home. 

Price 115,000. 
No. 25 — Bibb and Adjoining Counties. 
700 acres in a body. A good farm. Improvements fair. 
Good timber and water and in good state of cultivation. A 
bargain at the price. |5,000. 

No. 2G — Bibb and Adjoining Counties. 
880 acres. An excellent farm. Good strong land and one 
of the best combination stock and general Ifarming in Mid- 
dle Georgia. Good uplands and bottoms. Good timber and 
well watered. Improvements fair. |8,000. 

No. 27 — Bibb and Adjoining Counties. 
3,034 acres in a body. One of the finest plantations in Mid- 
dle Georgia. Good uplands and rich river bottoms. Part 
of the bottoms well set in fine Bermuda grass. An ideal 
stock farm. A large body of valuable timber on the place, 
which has been carefully preserved. This is offered at a 
great bargain. " |18,000. 

No. 28 — Houston County. 
1,518| acres in a body in Houston county, Ga. A fine 
property in the heart of the great fruit belt. A valuable 
ginnery and mill seat on the place. A fine farm for fruit 
and general farming, combined with stock raising. 

Price .f 12,000. 
665 acres in a body in the 24th District. A very fine farm. 
In good state of cultivation, well timbered and watered. Has 
on it one of the finest water powers in the State, power 
enough to run a cotton factory. Good mill on the place. A 
great bargain at the price. Price |12.50 per acre. 



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190 acres. A very good farm, but especiajly good for its 
fine water power. Has for years been a merchant mill seat- 
On a large bold stream. Place can be had at |2,000. 

373 acres. In the 23d District of Floyd county, Ga. A 
good farm, well improved and in a good state of cultivation. 
About 7 miles east of Rome. Price $12.00 per acre. 

240 acres of land, about 5 miles northwest of Cedartowm. 
A very good farm, in good state of cultivation and well im- 
proved. A bargain at the price. Price |2,000. 

418 acres. One of the best farms in Polk county. Rich 
vallev lands, Iving well, well timbered and watered and in 
fine state of cultivation. Price |6,000. 

319 acres, about 5 miles southwest of Lyerly. One of the 
finest farms in Northwest Georgia. Rich valley land. In 
high state of cultivation and very productive. Well watered 
and timbered. Price |20.00 per acre. 

208 acres, 1 mile from station of Lyerly. An excellent 
farm. Good lands, good timber and water, and place in good 
state of cultivation. Improvements good. 

Price 115.00 per acre. 

10,000 acres in a body in Sumter county, Georgia. One 
of the finest bodies of land for sale in the State of Georgia, 
if not the finest. Lands of excellent quality, lying well, well 
watered, finely timbered. Well improved. A magnificent 
tract for subdivision, or farming on a large scale. Railroad 
station, postofiice and store on property. Property pays 
handsomely now. Special terms and time to right parties. 

Price $7.00 per acre. 

800 acres of land, 140 acres in cultivation, balance well 
timbered, located 2 miles southeast of Halcyondale, com- 
fortable 6-room cottage and out-buildings. Splendid water 
facilities and land well drained. Price $4,500. 

J. W. JONES, Halcyondale, Ga. 

800 acres, 5 miles from Midville, Ga., Station. 2^ miles 
from Sebastopol Station. Good water; new and good ten- 
ant houses; 350 acres in cultivation, balance original forest. 
Good place for raising stock. $4.00 per acre. Time given if 
desired. R. H. BURTON, Midville, Ga, 



FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA. 

Altitude 750 feet, average temperature 60°, rainfall 56 
inches. On Central Railroad, 27 miles north of Macon, 75 
miles south of Atlanta. Excellent free-stone water; healthy 
climate, free from malaria; rich and productive lands; cot- 
ton factory, cotton seed oil mills, carriage repository and 
factory; thrifty population wanted; plenty of room and op- 
portunities to make money. 

135 acres, 2| miles from Smarr's Station, 1 mile from 
church and school house. 3 springs and creek on place. 
3-room house and out-houses. Good land for cereals, clover, 
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etc. Lay of land comparatively level. Price |1,0S0; cash 
$540, balance 12 months at 8 per cent, interest. ; 

T. M. BRANTLEY, Forsyth, Ga; 

202^ acres, 4 miles northwest Forsyth. 4-room house,, sta- 
ble and barn, well watered; lay of land broken, but rich and 
productive. Price |1,350. Terms, ^ cash, balance 1 and 2 
years at 8 per cent, interest. 

T. M. BRANTLEY, Forsyth, Ga. 

30H acres, 3 miles from Forsyth. Land rolling. 2-room 
house and 3 tenant houses. Price |2,000. Terms, third cash, 
balance 1, 2 and 3 years at 8 per cent, interest. 

T. M. BRANTLEY^ Forsyth, Ga. 

200 acres, 3 miles Forsyth, 2 miles Colliers Station. Level, 
good land, well watered. 6-room house; fine neighborhood. 

Price 11,650 cash. 
T. M. BRANTLEY, Forsyth, Ga. 

200 acres, 1^ miles Colliers Station, (> miles Forsyth. No 
improvements. Productive land, though somewhat broken; 
30 acres in woodland. Price $600 cash. 

T. M. BRANTLEY, Forsyth, Ga. 

100 acres, 1^ miles Forsyth. A delightful location and 
pretty suburban home; fine land and level; 350 choice peach 
trees and other fruits. Price |2,750 cash. Place has paid 
12^ per cent, on |3,000. 

T. M. BRANTLEY", Forsyth, Ga. 

3,200 acres, one body, 12 miles Forsyth; splendid body of 
land, rich and productive; plenty of water, pure and spark- 
ling. 2 handsome houses on the place. 100 bushels corn 
per acre has been made on the place. Price |8.00 per acre. 
Terms easy. A big bargain for a most excellent property. 
Suitable for colonization. Apply to 

T. M. BRANTLEY, Forsyth, Ga. 

265 acres, 2 miles Colliers Station, 6 miles from Forsyth. 
Good place. 6-room dwelling. 45 acres in woodland, well 
watered, several springs and branches; splQudid natural 
pasturage and fine farming land. Price |9.00 per acre; one- 
half cash, balance 12 months at 8 per cent, interest. 

700 acres, 8 miles Forsyth. Every field has a neverifailiiig 
branch. A splendid place. 7-room dwelling. 7 tenant houses. 
60 acres Bermuda pasture fenced, 25 acres excellent bottom 
lands, which never overflows. Price |8.00 per acre. Terms, 
half cash, balance 1, 2 and 3 years at 7 per cent, interest. 

T. M.' BRANTLEY, Forsyth, Ga. 

350 acres, 7 miles Forsyth. Excellent neighborhood; fine 
land and lies well. 4-room dwelling, barn and out-houses. 
Well watered. One of the best farms in Monroe county. 
Price |2,500 ; one-half cash, balance 12 months at 8 per cent, 
interest. T. M. BRANTLEY", Forsyth, Ga, 

50 acres, one mile from depot. Contains 800 fruit trees 
4 years old, peaches, Keiffer pears, Japanese plums. 10 
acres in wood, good pasturage. Plenty of room for corn, 



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potatoes, melons, etc. Good building site and would suit 
a market gardener admirably. Splendid neighborhood. For 
price and terms apply to 

T. M. BRANTLEY, Forsyth, Ga. 

215 acres, 2 miles from depot. Well watered, 4-room house, 
with barn, corn-crib, stables, etc. 60 acres in field pine, bal- 
ance in pasture and under plow. A very desirable farm for 
cotton, the cereals, or dailry and stock farm. All kinds of 
fruit will do well on the place. For special prices apply to 

T. M. BRANTLEY, Forsyth, Ga. 

No. €8. 
G,000 acres, Lee county,' 5 miles east Central R. R., 12 
miles north Albany, half in cultivation, good house and 
cabins, mill and store-house, on west bank of Flint River, 
good stock farm, for corn, cotton, cane and fruit, in body 
$5.00 per acre. One-quarter cash, balance easy terms. Can 
be advantageously cut up. Price according quantity and 
locality. |4.00 to flO.OO per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 78. 
101| acres on Central R. R., 3^ miles north Albany, Ga,, 
mostly cleared, good tenant houses, good fruit and melon 
lands. Price $10.00 per acre. Half cash. 

101^ acres adjoining the above, not so well improved, at 
$6.00 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Real Estate, Albany, Ga, 

No. 72. 
750 acres, Lee county, 4 miles east Central R. R., half in 
cultivation, tenant house. Price |3.50 per acre. Half cash, 
balance 1 and 2 years. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 452 
4,600 acres, Lee county, one body. Three plantations, 
2 to 5 miles east Central Railroad. 3,000 acres in cultivation, 
watered by creek. Good lands, but improvements run down. 
Adapted to fruit and all kinds of farming, excellent place 
for colonies. |3.00 to |4.00 per acre. Write for particulars. 
L. E. WELCH, Real ^Estate, Albany, Ga. 

No. 214. 
302| acres, Lee connty, 3 miles north Albany, 175 in culti- 
vation, 100 swamp timber, valuable, quarter mile from rail- 
road. 3 houses and store, can be divided. |6.00 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 196. 
4,500 acres, Dougherty county, 3,000 in cultivation, about 
35 tenant houses, with addition of a few more tenant houses 
can be rented for 100 bales cotton annually, very rich lands, 
14 miles west of Albany, near Central Railroad. |5.00 per 
acre; half cash, balance easy. terms. 

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No. 211'. 
GOO acres, Lee county, west bank Flint River, 300 in cul- 
tivation, 100 pasture cane brake, UOO pine woods, 2 creeks 
through place, 5 miles east Central Railroad, good stock and 
fruit farm. |3.50 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 216. 

1,750 acres, Calhoun county, embracing all of Williams- 
burg, except two acres, lying on both sides Central R. R., 
two 4-room houses, one 5-room house, 20 tenant houses, 
steam gin and screw, store-house, 2.50 acres clear of stumps. 
Lands rich, good for all crops, melon, fruit, etc. One of best 
plantations in county. |5.00 per acre. 

Also — 

Four other large, fine plantations, well improved, near 
Williamsburg. |4.00 to |5.00 per acre. Write for particulars. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 206. 
3,168 acres, Lee county, on Central R. R., at Enterprise, 
750 in cultivation, 1,500 virgin pine woods, 6 separate set- 
tlements, 5-room dwelling house, 19 tenant houses, depot, 
brick store. Kinchefoonee Creek on west. Some fruit trees 
on the place. Excellent place for fruit, melons and all crops. 
An excellent place for a colony. .Price |20,000. One-third 
cash, balance easy payments. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 205. 
1,120 acres, Lee county, 3 miles east Central R. R., 6-room 
house and all improvements. Good mill site, good head water. 
Mill house w^ants repair. Land excellent. $5.50 per acre; 
terms easy. 

,L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 204. 
1,300 acres, Lee county, 500 in cultivation, 1 mile north 
Leesburg, near the Central R. R., 6-room dwelling, 10 ten- 
ant houses. Improvements good; good for fruit, melons, 
and all crops of this county. |5.00 per acre; terms easv. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 201. 
600 acres, Lee county, 525 in cultivation, west bank Flint 
River, 8 miles above Albany, 4 tenant houses. $5.00 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 200. 
550 acres, Dougherty county, west bank Flint River, 300 
acres cane brake, excellent pasture, good stock farm, 4 
miles above Albany. |6.00 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 307. 
400 acres, Lee county, 4 miles north Albany, Ga., near 
Central R. R., specially adapted to peaches and fruit, will 



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be sold in lots to suit purchasers to practical fruit men,|8.00 
to $10.00 acre. Terms easy. 

1 L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 42. 
1,010 acres at Century, on C. R. R., 6 miles north of Albany, 
land comes right up to the depot, most cleared, some tenant 
houses, excellent fruit lands, will be sold if desired in 50-acre 
lots. Price |7.50 to flO.OO per acre; terms easy. 

L. E. WELCH, AlbajDij, Ga. 
No. 132. 
960 acres, on Central R. R., 1^ miles north Leesburg, 600 
in cultivation, 7-room house, 12 tenant houses, excellent 
fruit lands. $6.00 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 212. 
2,290 acres, in Lee county, 3 miles east Leesburg, C. R. R, 
12 miles north Albany, about half in cultivation, good tenant 
houses, good cotton, corn and fruit lands. |4.00 per acre. 
Quarter cash, balance 1, 2, and 3 years. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 16. 
10,000 acres, Calhoun county, embracing 8 best planta- 
tions in Calhoun county, all near Leary and Williamsburg, 
on Central R. R., splendid farming and fruit lands. |3.00 
to 18.00 per acre. Write for particulars. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 164. 
400 acres, Dougherty county, 4 miles west Albany, Ga., 
near Central R. R., 260 in cultivation, 150 in pasture under 
wire fence, 35 acres in peaches, 3 cabins. $7.00 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 138. 
8,000 acres, Lee county, embracing three best plantations 
in Southwest Georgia, all well improved, 6 to 8 miles from 
Albany, Ga., and 1 to 5 miles west of Central R. R. |8.00 
per acre. Terms easy. Write for particulars. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 96. 
1,000 acres on Central R. R., 3^ miles north Albany, Ga., 
excellent melon and fruit lands. Improvements good. 

Price 110.00 per acre. 
Prefer to sell half interest in this place to some good 
practical man to take charge. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 308. 
550 acres, Lee county, near Central R. R., half in cultiva- 
tion, balance pine woods. |3.50 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 218. 
3,000 acres, Calhoun county, 2,000 in cultivation, adjoin- 
ing corporate limits of Morgan, county seat Calhoun county, 



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fiue lands, well improved, watered by two creeks. $5.00 per 
acre. Extends within 2 miles of (Central R. R. 

L. E. ^\iELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 364. 
3,500 acres, Lee county, near Central R. R., 1,000 in cul- 
tivation, 14 miles north Albany, Ga., on west branch Flint 
River, rich land, well improved, good fruit and melon lands. 
|G.50 per acre. Quarter cash, balance 1, 2 and 3 years. Write 
for particulars. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga, 

4,000 acres, Lee county, 1,600 in cultivation, 4 miles east 
of Leesburg on Central R. R., good 'land, watered by creek. 
Improvements good. |4.50 per acre. One-third cash, bal- 
ance easy terms. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 236. 

2,000 acres, Lee county, 1,200 acres in cultivation, 1 mile 
east of station, Central R. R., 4^ miles north of Albany, Ga., 
on the west bank of Muckalee Creek; the banks are here 
high and the stream bold, and several first-class water 
powers are on the place; lands level, free from stones, well 
drained, sandy loam, clay sub-soil, well adapted to peaches, 
melons and all kinds of fruit. Price fS.OO per acre» 

Third cash, balance easy payment, with 8 per cent, inter- 
est on deferred payment. I could make up a good body of 
land here, of 10,000 to 15,000 acres, that would be a splendid 
place for a colony of 100 or more families. For further par- 
ticulars apply to 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

'No. 112. 
Bucket and tub factory, fully equipped, adjoining city lim- 
its, Albany, Ga., Central R. R. track at the door; machinery 
as good as new ; good suitable woods for mamif acturing ac- 
cessible and cheap along the lines of the Central R. R. Fine 
shipping facilities and good demand for products. A bar- 
gain and easy terms to a good practical man. Write for 
particulars to 

L. E. WELCH, Real Estate, Albany, Ga. 

No. 180. 
125 acres, 1| miles west Albany, ^ mile from Central R. R. 
90 acres in cultivation, balance in woods. Tenant houses. 
Good fruit and truck farm. Price |2,000. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 205. 
800 acres, Lee county, near Enterprise, on Central R. R 
400 acres cultivation, one 6-room house, two 3-Toom houses^ 
three 2-room houses, three 1-room houses, gin-house, barn, 
stables, etc. Splendid lands for fruit. Watered by stream 
and ponds. Price fO.OO per acre. This property adjoins No. 
206 on south and east. A splendid place 'for a colony. lean 



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furuish lands enough at this point for 50 to 100 families. 
Write for particulars. 
. .., L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

'•^ ■ No. 2uT. 

135 acres, Leesburg, Lee county, on Central R. K., two- 
thjrds of this tract in corporate limits of Leesburg, 500 yards 
of the Court House, level, well suited for building lots or 
tracking. In body at |12.00 per acre. Cut to suit at price 
to be agreed upon. 

L. E. W^ELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 70. 
., IDS acres, Dougherty county, 1 miles from Centi'al R. R.^ 
6 miles from Albanv. Lands good, improvements poor. 
Terms easv. fC.OO per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 88. 

. 438 acres, Lee county, 400 acres open, 3 houses, 3 miles 

northwest city, watered by springs and streams, level, good 

land, clav sub-soil. W^ell adapted to fruit of all kinds; some 

fruit on 'the place. Price |10.00 per acre. 

L. E. W^ELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 130. 
710 acres, Dougherty county, miles southwest city and 
Central R. R., good lands, improvements poor, most of it 
lying well. Price $3.50 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, 'Albany, Ga. 

No. 134. 
250 acres, 1^ miles west Albany, 1 mile from Central R. R. 
180 -acres in cultivation, 70 in fine woods; 4 mules, wagons, 
farm tools and crops for sale with the place. For particulars 
write to 

L. E. WELCH, Real Estate, Albany, Ga. 

250 acres, 1^ miles southwest city Albany ; all open, level, 
good land; most of it been laying out some years; near Cen- 
tral R. R. Good for fruit or trucking. Price fll.OO per aa'e. 

L. E. WELCH, (Albany, Ga. 
No. 30. 
430 acres, 1 mile east from Central R. R. depot, Albany, Ga., 
on east bank Flint River. Level, good lands. In body, 
$20.00 per acre; cut up, |20.00 to $30.00. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 40. 
165 acres, adjoining city, Albany, Ga., 10-room brick house, 
mansard slate roof, costing |5,000 ; good barn and out-build- 
ings. Some nice fruit. Land level and well improved. 

Terms easv. Price |11,000. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

1,000 acres, W^est Dougherty, 6 miles from Central R. R. 
Rents for 25 bales cotton. Price |6.00 per acre, 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 



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No. 248. 
750 acres, West Dougherty county, on Central R. R. All 
in woods, pine and hardwoods. Price $3.00 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Real /Estate, Albany, Ga. 

No. 90. 
1,251^ acres just west of city of Albany, Ga. Central R. 
R. runs through the property ; mostly open lands, Avell suited 
to suburban homes and small farms. Price flO.OO to |30.00 
per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Real Estate, Albany, Ga. 

No. 1G2. 
60 acres, 1 mile southwest Albany, near Central Railroad. 
45 in cultivation, 21 in pine woods; level, good land. 

120.00 per acre. 
L. E. WELCH, (Albany, Ga. 

No. 19 
551 acres, 1 mile north city Albany, on Central, and Co- 
lumbus Southern R. R., in 3 settlements; improvements good, 
watered by creek and springs. Some fruit. For particulars 
write to 

L. E. WELCH, Real Estate, Albany, Ga. 
Elegant suburban farm. 

No. 208. 
3,000 acres, Terrill county, adjoining Dougherty. About 
2,000 in cultivation, 7 miles north Central R. R. ; one 4-room 
and one 3-room house, 40 tenant houses, store-house; wa- 
tered by two branches of Keokee Creek; rich lands, well 
drained ;~ under good rent ; splendid cotton, corn and sugar 
cane lands; these lands join No. 380. Price |4.00 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

No. 209. 
850 acres, Terrill county, just west of the above No. 208. 

Price IG.OO per acre. 
L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 152. 
65 acres, 1 mile west of Albany, on Central R. R. ; all open, 
level, no waste. $25.00 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 228. 
680 acres, Lee county, 300 in cultivation. 3 miles east 
Central R. R., on Muckilucnee Creek; land good clay sub- 
soil, excellent fruit lands; improvements poor. 

Price $3.50 per acre. 
L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 232. 
4,150 acres, Dougherty county; 3 plantations, one body 
well improved, on the Central R. R., 4 miles west of Albany, 
Ga. Lands rich, some ponds and swamps, but little waste 
lands. Price $20,000; terms easy. Write for particulars. 
L. E. WELCH, Real Estate, Albany, Ga. 




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No. 234. 
1,400 acres, Lee county, at Century, on Central R. R., 6 
miles north Albany. Depot, mill, store-house. Groom dwell- 
ing, 14 tenant houses, 300 acres in cultivation; improve- 
ments new; land good; well adapted to fruit and melons 
and all crops of this section. An open spring or stream 50 
feet below surface; stream 5 feet deep, 15 feet wide; tem- 
perature of w-ater 55°, now utilized by steam pump. An 
elegant place for a home. Terms easy. Price |15,000. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 64. ; 
1,625 acres, Dougherty county, 4 miles south Central R. R., 
6 miles from Albany. 1,000 acres in cultivation, good tenant 
houses, barns, stockades, cribs, etc.; level, well drained, 
light gray loam, clay sub-soil; good stock farm, good fruit 
lands. Mules, cattle, hogs, forage, etc., all for sale with place. 
Price per acre $4.00. Terms easy. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
190 acres, Dougherty county, 6 miles southwest of Albany, 

4 miles from Central R. R. Mostly in cultivation ; two 2-room 
houses, good land for any ci:ops. |6.00 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 
No. 380. 
6,802^ acres, Dougherty and Terrill counties, about 4,000 
In cultivation, balance oak and pine, 15 miles west of Albany, 

5 miles from Central R. R. Rich chocolate lands, clay sub- 
soil, watered by streams and ponds; well equipped with ten- 
ant houses, gin, engine, screw, etc. A good investment for 
rent. A good class tenants in possession. Terms eas}'. 

Price, in bodv, |4.50 per acre. 

L. E. WELCH, Albany, Ga. 

A magnificent plantation of 2,085 acres, lying broadside 

to the city of Milledgeville, could be cut up in small lots, 

50 or 25 acres, to advantage. 1,000 acres cleared, rest in 

timber. Will sell entire tract at .fll.OO per acre. 

T. F. NEWELL, Milledgeville, Ga. 
Also,' 1,200 acres of land lying north of Milledgeville, with 
one of the finest water powers in the world. This body 
almost touches the city limits. A most desirable property. 
Water power price, |8,000. Land flO.OO per acre, or |20,000 
for whole. T. F. NEWELL, Agent. 

I have other desirable properties adjoining this city for 
sale, which I will take pleasure in showing. Correspond- 
ence solicited. T. F. NEWELL, 
Real Estate Agent, Milledgeville, Ga. 
200 acres of fine pine land within 4 miles of Wadley. 
Price |1,000 cash. A good 2-horse farm open and in state 
of cultivation. 

A. H. WOOTTEN, Wadley, Ga. 
285 acres of fine oak, hickory and pine land. 4 miles from 
Wadley. |2,000 cash; |2,200 half cash, balance in 3 vears. 

A. H. WOOTTEN, Wadley, Ga. 



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Also 82^ acres of good oak, hiekory and pine laud, about 
4| miles from Wadlej. Gash, |S00, or $1,000, $500 easli, bal- 
ance in 2 years without interest. 

A. H. WOOTTEN, Wadley, Ga. 

Farm in ChattaJioocliee county, near Columbus, Ga. Near 
Chattahoochee River and railroad. 1,200 acres well tim- 
bered and watered. Two-story dwelling and improvements. 
Price very low. Address 

F. B. GORDON, Columbus, Ga. 

Highland Fruit Farm. 70 acres of land, all terraced and in 
good shape. 6-rooni dwelling house. 6,000 to 8,000 choice 
fruit trees and grape vines. Other interests require owner's 
undivided attention. For special price apply to 

S. F. BECKMAN, Forsyth, Ga. 

Thomaston, Upson county, Ga. Altitude 800 feet, aver- 
age temperature 60°, average rainfall 55 inches, healthy 
section, two railroads. 

1,037 acres, one body, 3 miles Thomaston. 20 tenant 
houses, 3-story mill, ginnery, all good order. Big Potato 
Creek, fall of 60 feet in SOO^feet, 730 horse power; 115 feet 
fall in 2,700 feet, 1,430 horse power. State Geological sur- 
vey at low water. 50 acres of granite. Price |20,000 cash. 
Price holds good to January 1st, 1896. 

800 acres, 5 miles south Thomaston. 12 tenant houses. 
Good place for colony. |5.00 per acre, 5 years 7 per cent, in- 
terest. 6 months. 

550 acres, 2 miles of Thomaston. Fine lands, residence 
and tenant houses. 450 water horse power. 6 months. 

260 acres, 14 miles Thomaston. 200 acres in bottom. Rich 
lands, fishery, 5-room residence, 2> tenant houses, barns. 
6 months. 

300 acres, one mile Thomaston. All fine land. |3,300, two 
payments. 6 months. 

I. C. THOMPSON, 
Thomaston, Ga., Box 44. 
37 acres, wheat and corn mill, ginnery, both have good 
patronage; 5-room dwelling, property situated 5 miles S. W. 
Thomaston. Price |2,250. Half cash, balance 1 year, 7 per 
cent, interest. The water power at this place is 300 horse 
power. A splendid fishery. 

147 acres, 75 in cultivation, a good farm. 3-room house, 
new; also, new barns and stables. Price $1,-500 ; third cash, 
balance two annual payments, 8 per cent, interest from date 
of notes. 

100 acres, 2 miles east of Thomaston, in high state of cul- 
tivation; 4-room house, barns and out-houses, orchard. Price 
$2,000, in 3 payments. 

150 acres, 8 miles of Thomaston, all in wood, no improve- 
ments; all good land; 50 acres in bottom. Price $600 cash. 



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800 acres, 7 miles S. W. Thomaston, half open, dwellinj^s 
and barns. |5.00 per acre cash. 

I. C. THOMPSON, 
Thomaston, Ga., Upson Co. 

400 acres, $5.00 per acre, until April 1st, 1896, ^ mile from 
Mallorys Crossing, 5^ miles from Albany, 200 acres in cul- 
tivation, 25 acres in ]3eaches, second year's growth. Balance 
under strong hog and cattle proof fence for stock. Posses- 
sion given Nov. 1st, or for reasonable compensation for 
growing crops, immediate possession will be given. 

Address DR. P. L. HILSMAN, Box 44, Albany, Ga. 

1,000 acres, 12 miles from Columbus, on Central Railroad 
of Georgia, about 250 acres original pine and same number 
acres fertile bottom land. Good 7-room dwelling; fine water 
and healthy location ; only 4-niule farm been worked during 
last 10 years. Price |5.00 per acre. Terms, $1,500 cash and 
balance on long time. Address 

ALBERT S. DOZIER, Columbus, Ga. 

800 acres, 4 miles east of Cuthbert on railroad, well water- 
ed, branches and springs, 5 good houses, good gin-house 
and screw. $6.00 per acre. Address 

J. E. MARTIN, Cuthbert, Ga. 

The following factory site is oifered for sale: 
The property consists of 1,500 acres of land, with factory 
building, as follows: 

Main factory (wood sliop), 1^ stories, 100x50 feet. 

Machine shop, 1^ stories, 50x35 feet. 

L to main wood shop, 4.5x35. 

Warehouse, 100x60. 

Two fine dwelling houses. 

Eight operatives' houses. 

A fine, never-failing water power, pond covering 300 acres. 

A r\ r\ ffiQQ 

F. H. LUMMUS' SONS & CO., Juniper, Ga, 



W. S. GREEN'S LIST, COLUMBUS, GA. 

1,000 acres on Central Railroad, 12 miles east of Colum- 
bus, Ga., with good improvements, being well watered, well 
timbered and comparatively level. Price $4,000. 

147 acres of land 6 miles from Columbus, on Cusseta road. 
Gray land, with good clav sub-soil, in good state of cultiva- 
tion. ■ Price $600. 

320 acres of good oak and hickory land 7 miles north of 
Columbus, Ga., with good improvements. 50 acres in orig- 
inal oak and hickory forest, 5 acres good bottom land, 50 
or 60 acres in second growth pine, balance in cultivation. 

. Price $2,500. 

100 acres in Bell Wood, 3 miles north of Columbus, Ga., 
with good 6-room dwelling and several tenant houses. 

Price $2,500. 



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120 acres 2 miles from Columbus, on Seale road, in Ala- 
bama, with 4 tenant bouses. Price |1,500. 

357 acres 7 miles west of Columbus, Ga., with good six- 
room dwelling and tenant houses, about 100 acres in woods. 

Price $1,800. 



L. H. CHAPPELL'S LIST, COLUMBUS, GA. 

No. lo 

35 acres 2 miles from Columbus, Ga. 10 acres original 
timber, watered by never-failing branch and skirted by rail- 
road. Beautiful site for dwelling. Adapted for dairy or 
truck fcU'm or manufacturing. Price |1,800; will rent now 
for 1150. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 
No. 2. 
ISt) acres improved farm in Alabama, 4 miles from Co- 
lumbus, Ga. 50 acres original woods, watered by wells and 
springs. Price |2,500. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 
No. 3. 
|8,000. — 375 acres, nicely improved farm, in high state 
of cultivation. 90 acres original wood, new dwelling, sta- 
bles, public ginnery; watered by creek which furnishes 
ample power; 3 miles from Columbus, on railroad. 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt., Columbus, Ga. 
No. 4. 
|7,500. — 77 acres improved farm, in high state of cultiva- 
tion. New dwelling and farm houses, 3 miles from Columbus, 
Ga. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 
No. 5. 
|2,500. — 340 acres improved farm, 8 miles from Colum- 
bus. New dwelling and farm houses, watered by never- 
failing stream; 2 miles from R. R. station. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 
No. 6. 
$3,000. — 250 acres, improved farm, 4 miles from Colum- 
bus, Ga. 150 acres second growth pine and oak. Fairly 
good dwelling and farm houses. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt., Columbus, Ga. 
No. 7. . ' 

|(300. — 87 acres improved farm, 5 miles from Columbus, 
watered by never-failing stream, 40 acres woods. Rents 
now for 160.00 per annum. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 
No. 8. 
$7,000. — Improved farm, 850 acres, in Alabama, 12 miles 
fi^om Columbus, Ga. 700 acres original timber, watered by 
large creek, rich bottom land. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 



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No. 9. < 
112,000.-300 acres improved farm, in high state of culti- 
vation. 40 acres oak and hickory timber, watered by 
streams and springs. Two-story dwelling and ample farm 
houses. Situated in Monroe county, Ga., near Forsyth. 
Orchard of about 2,000 Elberta peaches. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 

No. 10. 
|1 000. — 100 acres improved farm, Meriwether county, 
Ga., near the White Sulphur Springs. 20 acres second 
growth pine. Half mile from railroad. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt., Columbus, Ga, 

No. IL i 

1500. — 190 acres improved farm in Alabama, 12 miles from 
Columbus, Ga. 40 acres woods. 6-room dwelling. Address 
L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 

No. 12. 
|1,G00.— 320 acres second growth pine land in Alabama, 
5 miles from Columbus, Ga. Address 

L. H, CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 

No. 13. 

$1,200. — 200 acres improved farm in Alabama, 6 miles 
from Columbus, Ga. 100 acres original timber. The wood 
can be sold in Columbus at figures which will pay for the 
land. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt., Columbus, Ga. 

No. 14. 
|3,500. — 350 acres improved farm, 6 miles from Hamilton, 
Ga, 80 acres original pine timber. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt., Columbus, Ga. 

No. 15. 
119,000. — 1,860 acres improved farm in Alabama, 12 miles 
from Columbus, Ga. 300 acres original oak, hickory and 
pine timber. Fronts 3 miles on the Chattahoochee River, 
which is navigated by steamers from Columbus to the Gulf 
of Mexico, carrying freight, passengers and the U. S. mail. 
Rich bottom lands, verv valuable. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 
No. IG. 
$500. — 100 acres of land, 25 in second growth pine, 5 miles 
from Columbus. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 

No. 17. 
115,000.-2,300 acres improved farm, 1,300 acres in orig- 
inal pine timber, 10 miles from Fort Gaines, Ga. Fronts 
on Chattahoochee River, which is navigated by handsome 
freight and passenger steamers from Columbus to the Gulf 
of Mexico. This place is offered with all the farm imple- 
ments and live stock to run same. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga. 



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No, IS. 
^_J,000.— 1,400 acres improved farm 12 miles east of Co- 
lumbus. 600 acres origiual pine timber. 2^ miles from 
Southwestern R. R. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt., Columbus, Ga. 

|1,500.— 100 acres on the Ckattahoochee River, 4 miles 
north of Columbus. Heavily timbered ; no houses. Address 
L, H. CHAPPELL, Agt., Columbus, Ca. 

17^000. — Elegant suburban home, 1 mile from Columbus, 
on Georgia Midland Railroad. 100 acres, 20 acres of orig- 
inal timber; cold spring and never-failing branch; new five- 
room dwelling and servants' house; apples, pears, peaches, 
plums, grapes, young bearing trees. Half mile of R. R. 
front. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt, Columbus, Ga, 

|;2,500. — 100 acres 2 miles north of Columbus, with dwell- 
ing, barn and servants' houses. 10 acres of original timber. 
A splendid truck farm. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt., Columbus, Ga, 

1100,000.-830 acres of land, commencing about 1 mile 
above Columbus, Ga., of which 170 acres are in Lee Co., Ala., 
on west side of the Chattahoochee River, and 030 acres are 
in Muscogee county, on the east side of the river; also, Island 
No. 3 in the Chattahoochee River. This land embraces a 
mile on both sides of the river, having a fall of 42^ feet. A 
cotton mill built in 1867 (with improvements added thereto 
since 1877, costing about |30,000). This mill had 4,500 spin- 
dles and 159 looms. There is also a wheat and corn mill, with 
three-run of stones. Three large and commodious dwellings 
for officers; all necessary buildings for operatives; stables 
and storerooms. 

In the woodland, on the Georgia side, is a beautiful and 
salubrious plateau, fronting on the river, containing several 
hundred acres, which could be advantageously laid off for 
residences and business lots for such persons as would nat- 
urally be attracted there, when this splendid and unrivaled 
water power shall in the near future become developed. All 
that is required is capital and energy, both of which could 
be profitably employed in its development. 

At this point the Chattahoochee is perhaps a half mile 
wide or more, and plunges between the hills of the Alabama 
and Georgia shores in a grand sweep of turbulent waters, 
broken here and there by islands, that divert the flood only 
to increase its velocity. We do not remember to have seen 
anything to surpass this water power short of the rapids 
above the bridge at the falls of Niagara. 

Within a single mile there is a fall of 42^ feet, utilized by 
spanning the space between one of the islands and the shore 
by an inexpensive dam of logs. Address 

L. H. CHAPPELL, Agt., Columbus, Ga, 



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JOHN BLACKMAR CO.'S LIST, COLUMBUS, GA. 

No. 1. 

53 acres (less streets) in the growing town Phoenix City, 
•opposite west of Columbus; separated from Columbus by 
Chattahoochee Kiver; on place is 4-room dwelling, barn, 
stables, etc. Can be divided into building lots and sold for 
a profit. !;?3,000. Address 

JOHN BLACKMAR CO., Real Estate Agency, 

Columbus, (ia. 
No. 2. 
Farm 8 miles from Columbus (north). 343 acres, 5-room 
dwelling, tenant houses, 3 wells and never-failing branch 
through center of place. Price |2,500, or will sell 182 acres 
and improvements, $1,600. 160 acres without improvements, 
fl,000. Address 

JOHN BLACKMAR CO., Real Estate Agency, 

Columbus, Ga. 
GALLEY 25 

No. 3. 
Farm 7 miles northwest of Columbus, Ga. 100 acres, new 
4-room dwelling, barn and servants' house. 3-liorse farm, 
balance in wood. Price |1,600. Address 

JOHN BLACKMAR CO., Real Estate Agency. 

Columbus, Ga. 
No. 4. 
Farm 0^ miles west of Columbus, Ga. 357 acres, half in 
wood, 6-room dwelling, barn, 4 tenant houses, pasture under 
fence, fruit trees, branches running through the place. Price 
11,700. Address 

JOHN BLACKMAR CO., Real Estate Agency, 

Columbus, Ga. 
No. 5. 
Market garden, 2^ miles east of Columbus, Ga. Dwelling, 
5 rooms; 110 acres, 40 in wood and 70 in cultivation. Colum- 
bus has population of 32,000; great scarcity of truck farms. 
Address 

JOHN BLACKMAR CO., Real Estate Agency, 

Columbus, Ga. 
No. 6. 
Farm 8^ miles northeast of Columbus, on Georgia Midland 
R. R. 160 acres, 20 in wood, 30 in second growth, balance 
in cultivation; Flat Rock Creek runs through it, good mill 
site. Dwelling and out-buildings. Price only |1,760. 

Applv to 

' JOHN BLACKMAR CO., Real Estate Agency, 

Columbus, Ga. 
No. 7. 
Farm 5 miles north of Columbus. 252 acres, 6-room dwell- 
ing, gin-house and screw, watered by creeks and branches. 
Orchard of apples, peaches, etc. Price |5,000. Applv to 
JOHN BLACKMAR CO., Real Estate Agency, 

Columbus, Ga. 



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No. 8. 
Farm, in tlie suburbs of Columbus, 55 acres, that can be 
subdivided and sold for a profit, or if held for a few years 
buyer will, we think, double his money, until that time it 
would be an excellent location for a market garden. 
Apply to 

JOHN BLACKMAR CO., Real Estate Agency, 

Columbus, Ga. 
No. 9. 
Farm for only $600, about 6 miles west of Columbus. 80 
acres; railroad passes through the place. On this farm is 
a dwelling, servants' house, about 20 acres of woods, branch 
runs through place, some cane, 5 acres peaches, apples, 
pears, and grapes. Apply to 

JOHN BLACKMAR CO., Real Estate Agency, 

Columbus, Ga. 





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